Kingsley, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Kingsley, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village occupies a gentle eminence 1 mile W of FroghaU station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 3 miles NNE of Cheadle. It has a post and money order office under Stoke-upon-Trent; telegraph office, Froghall railway station. There is a temperance hall. The parish contains also the township of Whiston. Acreage, 4821; population of the civil parish, 1936; of the ecclesiastical, 1587. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £192 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1821, and a new chancel built in 1886. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The parish council consists of nine members.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kingsley from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kingsley 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

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