Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOPE

HOPE, a chapelry in Shelton township, Hanley borough, Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Stafford; near the Stoke station of the Northwestern railway, and forming part of the Potteries. It was constituted in 1845; and its posttown is Hanley, under Stoke-upon-Trent. Pop., 4, 380. Houses, 871. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £300. * Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stoke on Trent CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Hope

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