Brown Edge, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Brown-Edge, an ecclesiastical parish in Norton-in-the-Moors parish, Staffordshire, 3 miles N of Burslem. It was constituted in 1844, and has a post office under Stoke-upon-Trent; money order office, Norton; telegraph office, Milton. Population, 1052. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £204 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was built in 1845. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Brown Edge
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Brown Edge 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online: