Photo of Forton Hall and All Saints church

Forton is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in Staffordshire, England, situated east of the

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

Newport, Shropshire Newport is a constituent market town in Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England. It lies north of Telford, west of Stafford, and is near the Shropshire-Staffordshire border. The 2001 census recorded 10,814 people living in the town's paris ...

. The civil Parish population at the 2011 census was 308. It is situated around Forton Hall and the 14th century All Saints church, and is sited on the Roman road

Via Devana Via Devana is the name given to a Roman Road in England that ran from Colchester in the south-east, through Cambridge in the interior, and on to Chester in the north-west. These were important Roman military centres and it is conjectured that the ...

and the modern A519 road between Newport and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Forton Hall was built by Edwin Skrymsher of Norbury Manor,

Eccleshall Eccleshall is a town and civil parish in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is located seven miles northwest of Stafford, and six miles west-southwest of Stone. Eccleshall is twinned with Sancerre in France. His ...

, at the end of the 17th century and is situated adjacent to the church of All Saints. In 1729 five new bells were given to the church. The most prominent monument is the alabaster tomb of Thomas Skrymsher (died 1633), knight of Aqualate and his family. There is a

pub A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

called The Swan.

Notable people

* Samuel Dugard (1645?–1697 in Forton) an English divine and rector of Forton Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 16, Dugard, Samuel
retrieved 9 August 2018 * John Wedge (1744 in Forton – 1816) was an English agriculturalist and surveyor, owned various properties including a brass factory in Birmingham *

Charles Wedge Charles Wedge (1810–1895) was a surveyor and explorer of the North-West regions of Western Australia. Wedge was born in Cambridgeshire, England; he was the eldest son of Edward Davy Wedge and a nephew of John Helder Wedge. In 1824, he emigra ...

(1746 in Aqualate Park – 1842) an English farmer who practised as a surveyor and assisted in the construction of canals. *

Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (27 February 1751 – 7 September 1826) was an English administrator. He married Helena Beatson, a talented amateur artist, and niece of notable Scottish portrait painter Catherine Read. He was the father of Fre ...

(1751 in Forton – 1826) an English administrator in India * Thomas Wedge (1760 in Forton – 1854) an English agriculturalist

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Villages in Staffordshire Civil parishes in Staffordshire Borough of Stafford {{Staffordshire-geo-stub

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