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PENKHULL, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford. The village stands 1¼mile W S W of Stoke-upon-Trent r. station. The township includes the village, and shares largely in theprosperity of the Potteries. Real property, £235, 609; of which £108, 956 are in railways, £69, 705 in canals, and £20 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 9, 207; in 1861, 10, 865. Houses, 2, 135. The Stoke workhouse is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 391 inmates. The chapelry includes but a portion of the township, and was constituted in 1844. Post-town, Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop. in 1861, 2, 110. Houses, 365. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £151. Patron, the Rev. T. W. Minton. The church is good; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The new North Stafford infirmary is here; and was built in 1866-8, at a cost of £33,000.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Penkhull Tn Stoke on Trent CP/AP Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Penkhull |
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