Hollinsclough, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Hollinsclough, a village and a township in Alstonfield parish, Staffordshire, near the sources of the rivers Dove and Manifold, 2 miles NW of Longnor. Post town, Bnxton; money order and telegraph office, Longnor. Acreage, 1842; population, 308. The manor belongs to Sir V. H. Crewe, Bart. There are a chapel of ease, erected in 1840, and a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
Civil parish | Allstonefield | |
Hundred | Totmonslow | |
Poor Law union | Leek |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hollinsclough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hollinsclough)
Maps
Online maps of Hollinsclough are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)