Hanford, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Hanford, an ecclesiastical parish in Trentham parish, Staffordshire, near the Grand Trunk Canal and the river Trent, 2½ miles S of Stoke-on-Trent, with a post office under Stoke-on-Trent; money order and telegraph office, Trent Vale. Population, 1373. The Duke of Sutherland is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; value, £183. Patron, the Duke of Sutherland. The church was built in 1827, and rebuilt in 1868. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
Hundred | Pirehill | |
Poor Law union | Stone |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hanford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Handford, or Hanford)
Maps
Online maps of Hanford 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)