In 1851 Tutbury was described as being celebrated for its ruined castle, once the seat of the Mercian kings, and afterwards the Earls and Dukes of Lancaster, was anciently a market town, and is still a large and respectable village, pleasantly seated on the south bank of the River Dove, which separates it from Derbyshire, five miles NW of Burton-upon-Trent. It has a large station on the North Staffordshire Railway, which here separates in two branches to Derby and Burton. The village has a large cotton mill, on the Dove, erected in 1781, and glass works, commenced 1836, and having steam power for glass cutting, etc. Tutbury parish comprises 4000 acres of land, including 777 acres in the Tutbury Ward of Needwood Forest, and 1798 souls.