Fenton, Staffordshire

Description
Fenton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Staffordshire. The township consists of Fenton Culvert or Great Fenton and Fenton Vivian or Little-Fenton. Great Fenton is 1 mile SE of Stoke-upon-Trent, and 3 miles ESE of Newcastle-under-Lyne. It has a station under the name of Fenton on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Stoke-upon-Trent. It is a seat of petty sessions and, is governed by a local board, and has a town-hall. The church was erected in 1839, and rebuilt in 1890. There is a chapel of ease, erected in 1887. Fenton Vivian is also in the parliamentary borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, and is 3 miles K of Newcastle-under-Lyne. It has a church, erected in 1882, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels. Area of the urban sanitary district, 1748; population, 16,998. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1841, and includes the township of Botteslow. Population, 12,093. The living is a vicarage in the diocese" of Lichfield; net value, £430 with residence. Fenton Culvert. See preceding article. Fenton, Great and Little, a conjoint township in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Staffordshire, the same as Fenton Culvert and Fenton Vivian. See FENTON, Staffordshire.