Abbey Hulton, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Abbey-Hulton, a lordship in Burslem parish, Staffordshire, 2 miles from Newcastle-under-Lyme. It contains the hamlets of Milton and Sneyd-Green, and has remains of a Cistercian abbey, founded in 1223 by Henry de Audley.
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 | Burslem | |
Hundred | Pirehill | |
Poor Law union | Wolstanton and Burslem |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Abbey Hulton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hulton-Abbey)
Maps
Online maps of Abbey Hulton 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)