Newchapel in 1868

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

"THURSFIELD, (or Newchapel), a chapelry in the parish of Wolstanton, N. division of Pirehill hundred, county Stafford, 2½ miles N. of Tunstall, its post town, 3 N. of Burslem, and 6 N.E. of Newcastle. The living is a perpetual curacy with the curacy of St. Mary's annexed, in the diocese of Lichfield, value £260. The church, dedicated to St. James, was erected in 1767, and re-roofed in 1827. There is a National school for both sexes."

"GREAT CHELL, (and Little) two townships in the parish of Wolstanton, in the northern division of the hundred of Pirehill, in the county of Stafford, 2 miles N. of Burslem. The inhabitants are chiefly maintained by the potteries. In a healthy spot in this township is erected the workhouse for the Union of Burslem and Wolstanton."

"WEDGWOOD, a township in the parish of Wolstanton, N. division of Pirehill hundred, county Stafford, 3 miles N.E. of Burslem."

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