Tutbury, Staffordshire

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Tutbury is a village in Staffordshire

Other current and historical names

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

Tutbury in historic gazetteers

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

Tutbury, market town and par. with ry. sta., Staffordshire, on river Dove, 5¾ miles NW. of Burton on Trent, 4001 ac., pop. 2306; P.O., T.O. Market-day, Tuesday. Tutbury is famous for its castle (built before the Conquest, and dismantled during the Civil War), the ruins of which are strikingly placed on a green knoll above the river; it was the prison-house of Mary Queen of Scots for many years. The church belonged to the priory which was founded here in 1080.

Tutbury in the Domesday Book

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

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