Pirehill Hundred in 1868

"NORTH PIREHILL, a hundred in the county of Stafford, contains the towns of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Hanley, Tunstall, and Lane End, and the parishes of Adbaston, Ashley, Audley, Betley, Biddulph, Bucknall-cum-Bagnall, Burslem, Eccleshall, Keele, Madeley, Maer, Norton-on-the-Moors, High Offley, Standon, Stoke-upon-Trent, Swinnerton, Trentham, Whitmore, Wolstanton and parts of Bartholmley, Drayton-in-Hales, and Muckleston, comprising an area of 116,880 acres, exclusive of Newcastle.

"SOUTH PIREHILL, a hundred in the county of Stafford, contains the parishes of Barlaston, Blithfield, Abbot's Bromley, Chebsey, Colton, Colwich, Creswell, Ellenhall, Gayton, Ingestre, Milwich, Ronton, Sandon, Seighford, Stone, Stowe, Tixall, Weston-on-Trent, Yarlett, and part of St. Mary and St. Chad, comprising an area of 86,870 acres.

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