Places in Longton in 1872

LONGTON

EDENSOR, a chapelry in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; on the North Stafford railway, adjacent to Longton station, 3 miles SSE of Stoke-upon-Trent. It comprises part of Lane-End and Longton townships; and was constituted in 1846. Post-town, Longton, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 4,943. Houses, 951. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good. 

LANE-DELPH, a hamlet in the parish and borough of Stoke-upon-Trent; 2 miles NW of Lane-End. 

LANE-END and LONGTON, a township in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, and within Stoke-upon-Trent borough, Staffordshire; on the North Staffordshire railway, at the junction of the Hanley and the Silverdale branches, 3 miles SE of Stoke-upon-Trent. It contains the post, market, polling, and railway town of Longton. Real property, £38,371; of which £400 are in mines, and £220 in iron-works. Pop. In 1851, 15,149; in 1861, 16,690. Houses, 3,277.

This township is part of the Potteries; it contained, toward the end of last century, no greater a seat of population than an obscure village; it acquired importance and wealth from vigorous working of the earthenware and porcelain manufacture; it possesses much coal, ironstone, brown limestone, with coloured marl, porcelain clay, and manganese; it presents a large aggregate of edificed area, with the features characteristic of the Potteries; and it has three churches, five dissenting chapels, several public schools, and other institutions.

One of the churches is at Edensor; another is called St. James, Longton; and the third is called St. John, Lane-End. The last was rebuilt in 1792, and enlarged in 1827; and has a tower of about 1760. The living of it is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £280. Patrons, Trustees.

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