•  Lane End, Staffordshire

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lane End like this:

LANE-END and LONGTON, a township in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, and within Stoke-upon-Trent borough, Staffordshire; on the North Staffordshire railway, at the junction of the Hanley and the Silverdale branches, 2¾ miles SE of Stoke-upon-Trent. It contains the post, market, polling, and railway town of Longton. ...

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Real property, £38,371; of which £400 are in mines, and £220 in iron-works. Pop. In 1851, 15,149; in 1861,16,690. Houses, 3,277. This township is part of the Potteries; it contained, toward the end of last century, no greater a seat of population than an obscure village; it acquired importance and wealth from vigorous working of the earthenware and porcelain manufacture; it possesses much coal, ironstone, brown limestone, with coloured marl, porcelain clay, and manganese; it presents a large aggregate of edificed area, with the features characteristic of the Potteries; and it has three churches, five dissenting chapels, several public schools, and other institutions. One of the churches is at Edensor; another is called St. James, Longton; and the third is called St. John, Lane-End. The last was rebuilt in 1792, and enlarged in 1827; and has a tower of about 1760. The living of it is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £280.* Patrons, Trustees. See Edensor and Longton.

Lane End through time

Lane End is now part of Stoke on Trent district. Click here for graphs and data of how Stoke on Trent has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lane End itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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