Bucknall, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Bucknall, two townships and an ecclesiastical parish in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Staffordshire. The townships are Bucknall and Bucknall-Eaves. Bucknall is 1½ mile E of Hanley, and 2 miles NE of Stoke-upon-Trent; has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and includes the hamlet of Ubberley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stoke-on-Trent. Bucknall-Eaves lies about a mile farther NE. The ecclesiastical parish bears the name of Bucknall-cum-Bagnall; includes also the township of Bagnall, and was constituted in 1856. Population, 4491. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £361 with residence. The church of St Mary the Virgin at Bucknall was erected in 1856, and is a large building in the Early English style, with an embattled tower. There is a chapel of ease at Bagnall, and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels are at Bucknall.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Bucknall

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bucknall from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bucknall, with Bagnall (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Bucknall 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)

Villages, Hamlets, &c