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Stanley is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England, about southwest of Leek. The village of Bagnall is about to the south. Stanley was formerly a
township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
in the parish of Leek, and later part of a
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
with
Endon Endon is a village within the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. It is southwest of Leek and north-northeast of Stoke-on-Trent. Endon was formerly a township in civil parish of Leek. Together with neighbouring Stan ...
(about to the north) and
Longsdon Longsdon is a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England, about southwest of Leek, on the A53 road. Civil parish The civil parish was created in 1894. (Formerly Longsdon was part of a civil par ...
(about to the north-east). Since 1894 it has been in the civil parish of
Endon and Stanley Endon and Stanley is a civil parish in Staffordshire, England, containing the villages Endon and Stanley. The civil parish (replacing a civil parish containing Endon, Stanley and Longsdon) was formed in 1894.A P Baggs, M F Cleverdon, D A Johnston and N J Tringham, "Leek: Stanley", in ''A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7, Leek and the Moorlands, ed. C R J Currie and M W Greenslade'' (London, 1996), pp. 229-232
British History Online. Retrieved 9 September 2019. The village lies mostly at height . The name Stanley, probably referring to this site, means a clearing on stony ground. The terrain is of
boulder clay Boulder clay is an unsorted agglomeration of clastic sediment that is unstratified and structureless and contains gravel of various sizes, shapes, and compositions distributed at random in a fine-grained matrix. The fine-grained matrix consists o ...
, and the underlying rock is millstone grit.


Features

Some cottages in Stanley were built in the 1860s for workers at flint mills, of which there were three in the 19th century. The pub The Travellers Rest dates from that time (its name being the original name). Stanley Pool, south of the village, is used for sailing by the North Staffordshire Sailing Club, founded in 1961."History"
North Staffs Sailing Club. Retrieved 10 September 2019.


History

The estate was held from about 1200 by William of Stanley, who received it from Adam de Audley, Lord of Horton; his descendants held the estate until 1660, when it was sold by William Stanley. The oldest house in the village, Lower House Farm, built about 1700, is probably on the site of the medieval manor house. Stanley Pool was built in 1786 to supply the
Caldon Canal Caldon Canal is a branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal which opened in 1779. It runs from Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, to Froghall, Staffordshire. The canal has 17 locks and the Froghall Tunnel. History The first plans by the proprietors of the ...
. Originally , it was enlarged to in 1840, a new dam being built to the north of the original dam.


See also

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Listed buildings in Endon and Stanley Endon and Stanley is a civil parish in the district of Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, England. It contains 48 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is at Grade II*, the middle ...


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* {{authority control Villages in Staffordshire Staffordshire Moorlands