Salt, Staffordshire :: The British Place Names Website

Other current and historical names

Selte

Parish/Community: Salt and Enson
District/Borough: Stafford
County: Staffordshire
Region: West Midlands

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°50'52"N 2°3'59"W
Eastings/Northings: 395611, 327813
OS Grid: SJ956278
Mapcode Local: GBR 27R.DB7
Mapcode Global: WHBDN.7P45

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Salt within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Salt in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Salt, eccl. dist., township, and vil. with ry. sta., Stafford St Mary and Chad par., Staffordshire - dist., pop. 689; township (Salt with Enson), 1677 ac., pop. 427; vil., 3½ miles NE. of Stafford; P.O.

Salt in the Domesday Book

A village in Pirehill hundred, in the county of Staffordshire.

- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Bishop of Lichfield St Chad; Ordmer of Somersal
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert of Stafford
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Gilbert of Hopton (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: 10 shillings in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 4 smallholders; 2 slaves
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 4 acres
- Mills: 1, value 3 shillings

British Place Names

Salt, Staffordshire

Salt is a village in Staffordshire

Salt in historic gazetteers

Salt in the Domesday Book