Places in Longton in 1868

LONGTON

"LANE END, a township and parochial chapelry in the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill, county Stafford, 4 miles S.E. of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It includes its market and post town, Longton, which is a station on the Silverdale and Longton branch of the North Staffordshire railway. The Trent and Mersey canal passes about 2 miles to the westward.

This township is situated at the southern extremity of the district called "the Potteries," and on the road from Newcastle to Uttoxeter. It is a place of recent growth, having risen to opulence and importance in consequence of the flourishing state of the earthenware and china manufacture established here since the commencement of the present century. It abounds in brown limestone, coal, and ironstone, with manganese, coloured marl, and china-clay: of this last the first "stone-china" table service was manufactured by Mr. Turner. There are extensive collieries in both the townships of Lane End and Longton [which see].

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £160, in the patronage of certain trustees, appointed under an Act of Parliament obtained in 1792. The church is a brick structure with a tower, built about 1760, and subsequently enlarged. There is also a new church at Longton. The Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and New Connexion Methodists, have places of worship. There are National schools partly endowed."

"LANE DELPH, a hamlet in the parish and borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, county Stafford, 2 miles N.W. of Lane End, and 13 N. of Stafford."

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