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
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 ...
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 ...