Bucknall, Staffordshire

Description
Bucknall, two townships and an ecclesiastical parish in Stoke-upon-Trent parish, Staffordshire. The townships are Bucknall and Bucknall-Eaves. Bucknall is 1 1/2 mile E of Hanley, and 2 miles NE of Stoke-upon-Trent; has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and includes the hamlet of Ubberley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stoke-on-Trent. Bucknall-Eaves lies about a mile farther NE. The ecclesiastical parish bears the name of Bucknall-cum-Bagnall; includes also the township of Bagnall, and was constituted in 1856. Population, 4491. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £361 with residence. The church of St Mary the Virgin at Bucknall was erected in 1856, and is a large building in the Early English style, with an embattled tower. There is a chapel of ease at Bagnall, and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels are at Bucknall.