Hanley in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"HANLEY, a chapelry, market town, and municipal borough in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill, county Stafford, 2 miles S.E. of Burslem, and 2½ E. of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Stoke-upon-Trent railway station is about 1½ mile from the town, and the North Staffordshire and Stoke and Biddulph lines have stations here.   (There is more of this description).

An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Hanley is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Etruria
• Shelton

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]