Stanley is a small village in the
Staffordshire Moorlands district of
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...
, England, about southwest of
Leek
A leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of ''Allium ampeloprasum'', the broadleaf wild leek (synonym (taxonomy), syn. ''Allium porrum''). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of Leaf sheath, leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a "s ...
. The village of
Bagnall is about to the south.
Stanley was formerly a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
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 Stanl ...
(about to the north) and
Longsdon (about to the north-east). Since 1894 it has been in the civil parish of
Endon and Stanley.
[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
Millstone Grit is any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles. The name derives from its use in earlier times as a source of millstones for use principally in watermills. Geologists refer to ...
.
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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 ...
. Originally , it was enlarged to in 1840, a new dam being built to the north of the original dam.[
]
See also
* Listed buildings in Endon and Stanley
References
External links
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Villages in Staffordshire
Staffordshire Moorlands