Penkhull
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| OS grid reference | |
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| Unitary authority | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Ceremonial county | Staffordshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STOKE-ON-TRENT |
| Postcode district | ST4 |
| Dial code | 01782 |
| Police | Staffordshire |
| Fire | Staffordshire |
| Ambulance | Staffordshire |
| UK Parliament | Stoke-on-Trent Central |
| European Parliament | West Midlands |
| List of places: UK • England • Staffordshire | |
Penkhull is a township within Stoke-upon-Trent in the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the English county of Staffordshire. The Domesday Book records it as two hides of land in the Hundred of Pirehill and that it was held by Earl Algar.[1]
Penkhull was developed by Herbert Minton as a dormitory suburb of Stoke. The ecclesiastical parish was created out of the parish of Stoke in 1844[2] when the church of St. Thomas was built by Scott and Moffatt at the expense of the Revd Thomas Webb Minton. The aisles were added in 1892 by Edward Prioleau Warren.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Domesday Book Staffordshire 1086, Phillimore & Co Ltd, Chichester 1976
- ^ Richard Talbot; The Church and Ancient Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, Webberley Ltd, Hanley, 1969 (page 57)
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner; The Buildings of England - Staffordshire, Penguin Books Ltd, 1974. ISBN 0-14-071046-9 (page 263)
