Dunston, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Dunston, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Penkridge parish, Staffordshire, near the Stafford and Worcester Canal, 2¼ miles N by E of Penkridge, with a post office under Stafford; money order and telegraph office, Penkridge. Acreage, 1448; population, 257. The living is a vicarage, with that of Coppenhall annexed, in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £110 with residence. Patron, Lord Hatherton. The church is cruciform, and was rebuilt in 1876.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Dunston from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dunston)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Dunston 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:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser