Endon, Staffordshire Family History Guide
Endon is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Staffordshire, created in 1720 from a chapelry in Leek Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Endover
Other places in the parish include: Stanley and Longsdon.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1731
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ENDON, a township and a chapelry in Leek parish, Stafford. The township lies on the river Churnet, and on the Leek railway, 4½ miles SW of Leek; is a conjoint township with Longsdon and Stanley; and has a post office under Stoke-on-Trent, and a r. station. Real property of Endon alone, £1,389; of Longsdon, £3,517; of Stanley, £648. Pop. of the whole, 1,241. Houses, 261.
The chapelry is co-extensive with the conjoint township; and is sometimes called Endover. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110. Patron, the Earl of Macclesfield. The church has a pinnacled tower.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833
Endon, co. Stafford.
P. T. Leek (154) 4½ m. SW b W. Pop. 445.
A township and chapelry in the parish of Leek and north division of the hundred of Totmonslow; living, a curacy subordinate to the vicarage of Leeke, in the archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, not in charge; patron (1829) the Earl of Macclesfield.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. I; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.
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Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Leek
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: Leek
- Poor Law Union: Leek
- Hundred: North Totmonslow
- Province: Canterbury