FENTON, a chapelry and a sub-district in Stoke-upon-Trent parish and district, Stafford. The chapelry lies on the Hanley branch of the North Staffordshire railway, near the Grand Trunk canal. 1 mile SE of Stoke-upon-Trent; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Stoke-upon-Trent. It was constituted in 1841. Pop., 5, 348. Houses, 1, 062. The property in it is not much divided. Fenton Hall is a principal residence. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the potteries, and many in mines. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £240.* Patron, the Rev. R. B. Baker. The church is very good.—The sub-district is conterminate with the conjoint township of Fenton-Culvert and Fenton-Vivian. Real property, £31, 772; of which £12, 042 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 5, 767; in 1861, 7, 882. Houses, 1, 573. The increase of pop. arose from the establishment of railway engineering works, the erection of two large iron furnaces, and the operations of a building society.

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