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Lane-End in Stafford County England History and GeographyLANE-END, a market town and chapelry in the parish of STOKE upon TRENT, northern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, 4 miles (E.S.E.) from Newcastle under Lyne, containing, with Longton, 7100 inhabitants. This place, which is situated at the southern extremity of the district called 'The Potteries,' and on the road between Newcastle and Uttoxeter, has risen to opulence and importance within a few years, in consequence of the flourishing state of the earthenware and china manufacture. The population is rapidly increasing; and among the indications of modern improvement may be mentioned the establishment of a mechanics institute. The Trent and Mersey canal passes about two miles westward from the town, and through it runs a small stream, on which are several mills for grinding flints. The market is held on Saturday for provisions, of which the supply is very abundant; and there are fairs for woollen cloth, hardware, and pedlary, on February 14th, May 29th, July 22nd, and November 1st. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with land for the erection of a parsonage-house, £1000 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £1500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of certain Trustees. The chapel, which is a brick edifice, rebuilt about 1795, has recently received an addition of five hundred sittings, of which four hundred and fifty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £800 towards defraying the expense. In 1827 an act of parliament was obtained, authorising a sale of all tithes and rectorial dues belonging to the rectory of Stoke upon Trent, and which contained powers for further endowing and converting the chapelry of Lane-End into a distinct rectory. A new church is now being erected by the parliamentary commissioners appointed for the building of additional churches. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, and Methodists of the New Connexion, and a chapel for Roman Catholics. A charity school was founded in 1760, and endowed by John Bourne, Esq., the master having a salary of £15 per annum, and a rent-free residence, for which he instructs about forty children of both sexes. There is also a National school. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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