Description
Kingsley, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village occupies a gentle eminence 1 mile W of FroghaU station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 3 miles NNE of Cheadle. It has a post and money order office under Stoke-upon-Trent; telegraph office, Froghall railway station. There is a temperance hall. The parish contains also the township of Whiston. Acreage, 4821; population of the civil parish, 1936; of the ecclesiastical, 1587. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £192 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1821, and a new chancel built in 1886. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The parish council consists of nine members.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
