Street names - the meaning and origin - Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle

Street names - the meaning and origin - Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle

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Shelton Farm Road
Shelton

On the 1898 OS map of the area this was the location of 'Shelton Farm'

Spratslade Drive Longton Named after Spratslade Farm which once belonged to Sir John Boughey Fletcher. The farm was bounded on the north by the present Belgrave Road (running east-west across the map), on the west by Trentham Road, on the south by Cocknage Road, and on the east by Red Bank Lane.
Spratslade appears on all the following maps:
William Yates map - Lane End in 1775
Plan of the Estates of the Duke of Sutherland of Trentham Hall
1878 OS map of the Dresden, (Longton) Estate
In the middle of the 19th century this estate was bought by the Longton Freehold Land Society. Originally the Dresden estate was referred to as "Spratslade estate"

Shelton Farm Road Shelton	On the 1898 OS map of the area this was the location of 'Shelton Farm'
Spratslade Drive Longton	Named after Spratslade Farm which once belonged to Sir John Boughey Fletcher. The farm was bounded on the north by the present Belgrave Road (running east-west across the map), on the west by Trentham Road, on the south by Cocknage Road, and on the east by Red Bank Lane. Spratslade appears on all the following maps: William Yates map - Lane End in 1775 Plan of the Estates of the Duke of Sutherland of Trentham Hall 1878 OS map of the Dresden, (Longton) Estate In the middle of the 19th century this estate was bought by the Longton Freehold Land Society. Originally the Dresden estate was referred to as "Spratslade estate"