It is miles southwest of Uttoxeter in the valley of the River Blythe.

An alternative possibility may be “a dairy farm by the gravelly stream”.

At that time the manor was part of the lands of Robert de Stafford.

There was one acre of meadow and a wood half a league in length and breadth.

Alfred Ronalds researched his renowned book The Fly-fisher's Entomology (1836) while living nearby at Lea Fields.