Trentham in 1872

TRENTHAM, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Stone district, Stafford. The village stands on the river Trent, 1 mile W of the North Staffordshire railway, and 3 SSW of Stoke-upon-Trent; is a seat of petty-sessions; gives the title of Viscount to the Duke of Sutherland; and has a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent, a railway station, and a police station. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Real property, £5,471. Pop., 645. Houses, 127. The parish includes five other townships, and comprises 6,900 acres. Pop. in 1851, 2,747; in 1861, 4,611. Houses, 958.

Trentham Park is the seat of the Duke of Sutherland; was altered by Barry into a splendid pile, with rich architectural decorations in the Italian style; has finely-wooded grounds, laid out by Brown, and containing a lake and a mausoleum; and was visited in 1805 by George III., in 1832, by the Princess Victoria, in 1868, by the Prince and Princess of Wales. A nunnery was founded at Trentham, before 683, by one of the Saxon kings; and an Augustinian priory superseded it, in the time of Henry I.; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Brandons.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese or Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church was rebuilt in 1842. The perpetual curacy of Butterton is a separate benefice. There are an endowed school with £20 a-year, and charities £61. The sub-district includes also another parish and a liberty. Pop., 6,259. Houses, 1,273. 

An 1872 Gazetteer description of the following places in Trentham is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Clayton-Griffith
• Hanchurch
• Hanford
• Millstone-Green

 

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