For Newcastle, see page 69.
For Lane-End, see page 76.
Trentham is a parish and township in the hundred of Pirehill and county of Stafford. Pop., parish, 2,344; An. As. Val. £11,909; Pop., town, 631, principally employed in the manufacture of bricks and tiles, the most of which are of a dark blue colour. The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through the parish. The church is a very ancient structure, dedicated to St. Mary; the living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £1,400 by parliamentary grant and the Crown; K.B. £14. P.R. £113 9s. 2d.; the patronage is vested in the Duke of Sutherland, who takes the title of Viscount Trentham from this place. About the end of the 10th century. Ethelred ere erected a nunnery, of which he appointed his sister the abbess. In the reign of Henry I., about a century afterwards, it was converted into a priory of Augustine Canons; no vestige now remains of the establishment.
Leek is a market-town and parish in the northern division of Totmonslow, situated on an eminence near the Churnet, a branch of the river Trent, in the moor lands of Staffordshire; Pop, town and parish, 10,780, town, 873, principally occupied in the manufacture of silk and cotton; An. As. Val. £4,958. Market on Wednesday: fairs, February 7, Easter Wednesday, May 18, Whit Wednesday, July 3 and 28, Wednesday after October 10, for cattle of all sorts, and ped-
