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SHELTON, a township, a sub-district, and a parochial chapelry, in Stoke upon-Trent parish and district, Stafford. The township lies on the North Staffordshire railway, and on the Trent and Mersey and the Caldon canals, ¾ of a mile N of Stoke; is included all in Stoke parliamentary borough, and mostly in Hanley municipal borough; contains Etruria and part of Cobridge; rose from a very poor condition in last century, and from a pop. of 5,487 in 1811 to a pop. of 18,331 in 1861, in connexion with the pottery, the coal, and the iron trades; comprises much of the town of Hanley; contains the seats of Stone Park, Cliffe Ville, and Etruria, the North Staffordshire infirmary, and numerous manufactories of porcelain and earthenware; shares in the postaland railway facilities of both Hanley and Stoke; and has a market place, three churches, five dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a mechanics' institute, a public library, and national and dissenting schools. The three churches are those of Shelton, Etruria, and Hope chapelries; and the first was built in 1834, at a cost of £9,311,-was repaired and enlarged in 1866, at a cost of more than £3,000, and is in the early English style, with a tower 120 feet high. Real property, £58,319; of which £15,809 are in mines, £10 in quarries, £1,640 in iron-works, and £1,557 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 14,796; in 1861, 18,331. Houses, 3,649.—The sub-district is conterminate with the township.—The chapelry comprises only a section, and was constituted in 1843. Pop. in 1861, 8,617. Houses, 1,703. The living* is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £620. Patron, the Rev. J. H. Murray.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, a sub-district, and a parochial chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Stoke on Trent CP/AP Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Shelton |
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