Penkhull, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Penkhull, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Staffordshire. The village stands 1½ mile WSW of Stoke-upon-Trent. The township includes the village, and shares largely in the prosperity of the Potteries. The ecclesiastical parish includes but a portion of the township, and was constituted in 1844. Population, 3809. Post town, Stoke-upon-Trent. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £165. Patron, the Rector of Stoke-upon-Trent. The church was built in 1843, and is in the Early English style. 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 | |
Civil parish | Stoke upon Trent | |
Hundred | Pirehill | |
Poor Law union | Stoke-upon-Trent |
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 Penkhull
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Penkhull from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Penkhull 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)