Description
Penkhull, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Staffordshire. The village stands 1 1/2 mile WSW of Stoke-upon-Trent. The township includes the village, and shares largely in the prosperity of the Potteries. The ecclesiastical parish includes but a portion of the township, and was constituted in 1844. Population, 3809. Post town, Stoke-upon-Trent. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £165. Patron, the Rector of Stoke-upon-Trent. The church was built in 1843, and is in the Early English style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
