Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Stoke on Trent. You may be able to find further references to Stoke on Trent in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
STOKE-UPON-TRENT	a town, a parish, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Stoke on Trent.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Boothen	township	Bartholomew
BOOTHEN	a township	Imperial
Botteslow	township	Bartholomew
BOTTESLOW	a township	Imperial
BUCKNALL	two townships and a parochial chapelry	Imperial
Bucknall and Bucknall Eaves	2 townships with railway station	Bartholomew
Bucknall-cum-Bagnall	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BUTTERTON	a township	Imperial
Clayton	hamlet	Bartholomew
CLAYTON	a township	Imperial
Eaves	hamlet	Bartholomew
Edensor	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Etruria	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
ETRURIA	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
FENTON (Great and Little)	a conjoint township	Imperial
Hartshill	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
HARTSHILL	a chapelry	Imperial
Hope	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
HOPE	a chapelry	Imperial
LANE-DELPH	a hamlet	Imperial
Lane End	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
LANE-END and LONGTON	a township	Imperial
Northwood	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
NORTHWOOD	a village and a chapelry	Imperial
Penkhull	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
PENKHULL	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
SEABRIDGE	a township	Imperial
Shelton	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
SHELTON	a township, a sub-district, and a parochial chapelry	Imperial
Trent Vale	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
TRENT VALE	a chapelry	Imperial
Wellington	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
WELLINGTON	a chapelry	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Stoke on Trent within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Robert Gammage	Touring South Wales	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Potteries	0	2
Wellington	0	2
Hanley	1	2
Shelton	0	2
Northwood	0	2
Etruria	0	2
Cobridge	0	2
Sneyd	0	2
Bucknall	0	2
Hartshill	0	2
Penkhull	0	2
Hope	0	2
Rushton Grange	0	1
Abbey Hulton	0	2
Fenton	0	2
Milton	0	2
Burslem	3	2
Lane End	0	2
Longport	0	2
Edensor	0	2