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Aqueduct Street -
off Glebe Street
On the left is the side
of the old Stoke Town Hall, on the right is the Glebe public house and
hotel. In the centre is the entrance to the new Civic Centre which is
connected to the Town Hall.
Once upon a time
Aqueduct Street ran from Glebe Street to an aqueduct which carried the
Newcastle-under-Lyme canal over the Fowlea brook
photo July 2000
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The Glebe Land
belonging to Stoke Church
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The map below shows part
of the glebe estate, land belonging to the church. This estate
comprised over 150 acres with a third of the land in the township of
Penkhull, a third in Shelton (north of the Fowlea Brook) and a third
in Fenton (east of the River Trent).
The church and the
rector's house (Stoke Hall) stood on moated sites which provided
protection not only from attackers but also from the river which
periodically flooded the meadow land in the valley bottom.
This
map is undated but it is between 1800 and 1826. 1800 is when the
Newcastle Canal (shown on the map) was completed and 1826 which is
when work on the new church was started. The streets around the new
church (Glebe Street, Wharf Street and Brook Street) were laid out in
1830 and are also not shown on this map. |
