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The following alternative names exist:
Name | Status | Language | Start | End | Authority |
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STOKE ON TRENT | Preferred | English | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 743. | ||
STOKE UPON TRENT | Alternate | English | 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'. |
We know of no associations with other units.
This unit was part of the following units:
Name | Type | Start | End | Authority |
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STAFFORDSHIRE | Poor Law/Registration County | 1850 | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 743. | |
STAFFORDSHIRE | Administrative County | Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.) |
This unit was affected by the following changes:
Date | Type of change | Other unit involved | Area transferred | Authority |
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1922 | was abolished to create | STOKE AND WOLSTANTON PLU | Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.) | |
01 Jun 1896 | was enlarged by gaining part of | STONE RegD/PLU | Florence and Normacott lost to Stoke Upon Trent | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) |
01 May 1896 | was enlarged by gaining part of | CHEADLE RegD/PLU | East Vale lost to Stoke on Trent | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) |
01 May 1896 | was reduced to enlarge | NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME RegD/PLU | Part of Stoke upon Trent lost to Newcastle under Lyme | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) |
01 Dec 1905 | was enlarged by gaining part of | WOLSTANTON AND BURSLEM RegD/PLU | Milton (part of) | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) |
01 Mar 1907 | was reduced to enlarge | LEEK RegD/PLU | Bagnall | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) |
This unit contained the following units:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Stoke on Trent RegD/PLU through time | Census tables with data for the Poor Law Union/Reg. District, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10174636
Date accessed: 11th February 2025