Description
Endon, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in the township of Leek, Staffordshire. The village lies on the river Chumet, 5 miles SW of Leek, and 7 NE of Stoke-upon-Trent, and has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post and money order office under Stoke-upon-Trent; telegraph office, railway station. Acreage, 5457; population, 1759 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1355. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £170. The church was built in 1737, restored in 1879, with further restoration in 1885. There are mission churches at Longsdon and Stanley, and Wesleyan chapels at Endon and Longsdon.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
