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Trentham in Stafford County England History and GeographyTRENTHAM, a parish in the northern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county of STAFFORD, comprising the chapelry of Blurton with Lightwood-Forest, and the townships of Butterton, Clayton-Griffith, Hanchurch, Handford, and Trentham, and containing 2203 inhabitants, of which number, 589 are in the township of Trentham, 3¼ miles (S.S.E.) from Newcastle under Lyne. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Stafford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure without a tower, which was taken down about a century ago. A new chapel, erected at Handford, was opened in July 1828. The Trent and Mersey canal passes through the parish, in the neighbourhood of which there is a considerable manufacture of remarkably good bricks and tiles, of a dark blue colour, much in request at Northampton and the intervening places. A court leet is held once a year. Lady Catherine Leveson, in 1670, bequeathed an annuity of £20 for teaching poor children, and a like sum for apprenticing them. Here was anciently a nunnery, of which St. Werburgh, in the seventh century, was appointed abbess, by her brother, King Ethelred. In the reign of Henry I., Randal II., Earl of Chester, converted it into a priory of Augustine canons, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints, which, at the dissolution, had a revenue of £121. 3. 2., and was granted to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. Trentham gives the title of viscount to the Marquis of Stafford, whose noble mansion is in this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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