Penkhull

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Penkhull
latitude= 53.0007
longitude= -2.1968
population =
unitary_england= Stoke-on-Trent
lieutenancy_england= Staffordshire
region= West Midlands
constituency_westminster= Stoke-on-Trent Central
post_town= STOKE-ON-TRENT|postcode_district = ST4
postcode_area= ST |dial_code= 01782
os_grid_reference= SJ868448

Penkhull is a township within Stoke-upon-Trent in the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the English county of Staffordshire. The Domesday Book records it as two hides of land in the Hundred of Pirehill and that it was held by Earl Algar. ["Domesday Book Staffordshire" 1086, Phillimore & Co Ltd, Chichester 1976 ]

Penkhull was developed by Herbert Minton as a dormitory suburb of Stoke. The ecclesiastical parish was created out of the parish of Stoke in 1844 [Richard Talbot; "The Church and Ancient Parish of Stoke-upon-Trent", Webberley Ltd, Hanley, 1969 (page 57)] when the church of St. Thomas was built by Scott and Moffatt at the expense of the Revd Thomas Webb Minton. The aisles were added in 1892 by Edward Prioleau Warren. [Nikolaus Pevsner; "The Buildings of England - Staffordshire", Penguin Books Ltd, 1974. ISBN 0-14-071046-9 (page 263)]

Penkhull is one of 20 or so conservation areas in Stoke-on-Trent (the others including the nearby estate called The Villas). The conservation area includes Grade II listed buildings such as the church mentioned above and the "The Greyhound Inn" public house and restaurant.

The township is part of the Hartshill and Penkhull electoral ward, and the Stoke Central parliamentary constituency which is currently represented by Mark Fisher MP.

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