Whiston, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Whiston, a village and a township in Kingsley parish, Staffordshire, 1 mile E of Froghall station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 4 miles ME of Cheadle. Post town, Cheadle, under Stoke-upon-Trent. The township includes also the hamlet of Whiston Eaves. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 Whiston from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Whiston 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)