Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SNEYD

SNEYD, a hamlet and a chapelry in Burslem parish, Stafford. The hamlet adjoins Burslem town, and participates in its industries. Real property, £11,256; of which £6,846 are in mines. Pop., 1,128. Houses, 223. -The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Post town, Burslem, under Stock-on-Trent. Pop., 3,071. Houses, 610. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value £150.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1852. There is a Wesleyan chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Burslem CP/Ch       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Sneyd

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