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The name “Hanley” is derived from Old English, with “Han” meaning “rock” or “stone,” and “ley” meaning “a clearing in the woods.” This suggests that the area was originally a rocky clearing, perhaps used for agriculture or as a settlement.
Hanley is one of the six towns that, along with Burslem, Longton, Fenton, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent, amalgamated to form the City of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The town is the main business, commercial and cultural hub of the wider Potteries area.
Laying out the streets of Hanley (Lower Green) In the 1830's Hanley was considered 'a large modern town', the largest in the Potteries and the second in Staffordshire; its streets 'generally spacious and well paved', its houses of 'neat appearance, and some of them, as well as the public edifices . . . spacious and elegant'.
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The centre of Hanley preserves theirregular layout of the late-18th-century village (fn. 153) andwas described in 1960 as 'an archipelago of islandsites'. (fn. 154) The buildings occupying these variouslyshaped islands have been replaced piecemeal fromthe early 19th century onwards and are now ofwidely different heights, styles, and materials. Beca...
William of Hanley held 3 virgates in thevill of Hanley in 1212 as a royal sokeman, paying theking 6s. rent. (fn. 215) Although in 1227 the Crown confirmed to Henry de Audley a grant of 'all the land ofHanlih' made by Richard son of Noel of Hanley, (fn. 216) William of Hanley was holding the vill of the kingin 1236 for a rent of 6s. payable at Newca...
Birches Head farm, situatedwithin the manor of Hulton on the road from Hanleyto Abbey Hulton, was the home of John Adams,youngest son of Thomas Adams of Burslem, by1611. (fn. 232) It remained in the occupation of this branchof the Adams family until the death of Mabel, thewidow of John Adams (d. 1753), in 1771. (fn. 233) Thefamily also mined coal o...
The development of Hanley: Hanley existed as a vill in the early 13th century. In the early 18th century it was still 'a humble collection of dwellings' which lay chiefly around Upper Green (at the junction of Keelings Lane and the present Town Road), and Lower Green (the later Market Square).
Huntbach Street, formerly Market Street, ascends out of the city centre up the hill known archaically as Hanley Green. This 600 foot promontory is the highest point for miles and divides two valleys which carry Trent tributaries southwards.
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