Checkley, Staffordshire

Description
Checkley, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, on the river Tean, 1 1/2 mile NE of Leigh station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 4 miles SSE of Cheadle. The parish contains the villages of Upper and Lower Tean, Fole, Beam-hurst, and Hollington, and part of the hamlet of Foxt, the last lying detached within Ipstones parish. Post town, Upper Tean, under Stoke-upon-Trent; telegraph office, Cheadle. Acreage, 5955; population of the civil parish, 2620; of the ecclesiastical, 1315. Many of the inhabitants are employed in tape and cotton manufacture. The living is a rectory, including a chapel of ease at Hollington, in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £630 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1874; it has a Norman tower, and contains a Norman font, some ancient monuments, and some good stained glass, and the churchyard contains three pyramidal stones, with ancient rude sculptures. The vicarage of Tean is a separate benefice. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Fole.