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The following appear as names for Stoke on Trent. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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STOKE UPON TRENT | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Stoke on Trent. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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00GL | District/Unitary Authority (UA) | Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics) |
CENTRAL STOKE ON TRENT | Constituency (BCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
E330942 | Local Government District (CB/MB) | |
NORTH STOKE ON TRENT | Constituency (BCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
SOUTH STOKE ON TRENT | Constituency (BCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
STOKE AND WOLSTANTON | Poor Law Union/Reg. District (PLU) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 743. |
STOKE NORTH | Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 865. |
STOKE ON TRENT | Archdeaconry | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 865. |
Constituency (PBCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1977) | |
District/Unitary Authority (UA) | Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics) | |
Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 424. | |
Local Government District (CB/MB) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 742. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 423. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 743. | |
Sanitary District (USD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 745. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 745. | |
Urban Labour Market | Great Britain Historical GIS Project | |
STOKE ON TRENT CENTRAL | Constituency (BCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
STOKE ON TRENT NORTH | Constituency (BCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
STOKE ON TRENT SOUTH | Constituency (BCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
STOKE ON TRENT STOKE | Constituency (PBDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
STOKE RURAL | Parish-level Unit (CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 1894. |
Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. | |
STOKE UPON TRENT | 1841 Occupation reporting area | 1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'. |
Constituency (PBCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 424. | |
Local Government District (CB/MB) | 1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 24, 'Ages of Persons, Males and Females, in Municipal Boroughs and other Urban Districts, 1901'. | |
Local Government District (RD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 746. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | 1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 3, 'Population, Acreage, Private Families and Dwellings'. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 423. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. | |
Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. | |
Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 865. | |
Sanitary District (USD) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Stoke on Trent, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Stoke on Trent, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/551/names
Date accessed: 19th April 2024