Places in Stoke-upon-Trent in 1872

STOKE

CLAYTON, a township in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; adjacent to the Northwestern railway, 2 miles SW of Stoke. Pop., 149. Houses, 30. 

FENTON, a chapelry and a sub-district in Stoke-upon-Trent parish and district, Stafford. The chapelry lies on the Hanley branch of the North Staffordshire railway, near the Grand Trunk canal. 1 mile SE of Stoke-upon-Trent; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent. It was constituted in 1841. Pop., 5,348. Houses, 1,062. The property in it is not much divided. Fenton Hall is a principal residence. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the potteries, and many in mines. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £240. Patron, the Rev. R.B. Baker. The church is very good. The sub-district is conterminate with the conjoint township of Fenton-Culvert and Fenton-Vivian. Real property, £31,772; of which £12,042 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 5,767; in 1861, 7,882. Houses, 1,573. The increase of pop. arose from the establishment of railway engineering works, the erection of two large iron furnaces, and the operations of a building society. 

HARTSHILL, a chapelry in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; near the river Trent, the Grand Junction canal, and the Northwestern railway, in the neighbourhood of Stoke-upon-Trent. It was constituted in 1843; and its post-town is Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 1,835. Houses, 390. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, not reported. Patron, G. H. Campbell. Esq. 

TRENT VALE, a chapelry in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; 1 mile from Stoke railway station. It was constituted in 1844; and it has a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 2,183. Houses, 416. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Rector of Stoke. 

WELLINGTON, a chapelry in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; near Stoke railway station. It was constituted in 1845; and its post-town is Stoke-upon-Trent Pop., 5,555. Houses, 1,144. The property is subdivided. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £290. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good; and there are dissenting chapels.

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]