Bucknall cum Bagnall, Staffordshire Genealogy

England Staffordshire

Parish History
Bucknall cum Bagnall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, Refounded in 1849 from Bucknall Ecclesiastical Parish and Bagnall Ecclesiastical Parish. Other places in the parish include: Bagnall, Bucknall Eaves, Ubberley, Eaves, and Bucknall with Ubberley.

BUCKNALL, with Bagnall (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stoke-upon-Trent, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 1½ mile (E.) from Hanley; containing, with the townships of Bagnall, Bucknall, Eaves, and Ubberley, 1609 inhabitants, of whom 638 are in Bucknall township. These places lie from four to seven miles north-east of Stoke: both villages are agricultural. The road from Hanley to Cheadle passes through the parish. Bucknall was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Stoke, but was separated from it by an act passed in 1807, and, with the chapelry of Bagnall, constituted a distinct rectory. The living is not in charge; net income, £200; patron and incumbent, the Rev. Edward Powys. The church, a small edifice in an elevated situation, was rebuilt in 1718: the chapel of ease at Bagnall was rebuilt in 1834.

From: 'Bucknall - Buildwas', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 424-428. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50841 Date accessed: 01 April 2011.

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