Hanley & Staffordshire



The Hugh (1) & Margaret (2) Roberts family first settle in Hanley, Staffordshire, England about 1858, and most of the family left Staffordshire in 1886 and came to the United States. 
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 Staffordshire


Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England.  According to Genuki:  “It is divided into 5 hundreds, which contain 1 city, 21 towns, 181 parishes, and 670 villages.”(1)


Wiki describes Staffordshire in this way: 

In the north and in the south the county is hilly, with wild moorlands in the far north and Cannock Chase an area of natural beauty in the south. In the middle regions the landscape is low and undulating. Throughout the entire county there are vast and important coalfields. In the southern part there are also rich iron ore deposits. The largest river is the Trent. The soil is chiefly clay and agriculture was not highly developed until the mechanisation (sic) of farms.

Staffordshire is home to the highest village in Britain, Flash. The village, in the Staffordshire Moorlands, stands at 463 m (1518 ft) above sea level. This record was confirmed in 2007 by the Ordnance Survey after Wanlockhead in Scotland also claimed the record. The BBC's The One Show investigated the case in a bid to settle the argument and Flash was confirmed as the highest. The highest point in Staffordshire is Cheeks Hill. (2) 


Hanley

The name Hanley comes from "haer lea", meaning "high meadow”. or 'Heah Lea' meaning Rock Meadow. (3)

Wiki describes the town of Hanely and its history of origin:

Hanley, in Staffordshire, England, is one of the six major towns that joined together to form the city of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910. Hanley was the only one of the six towns to be a county borough before the merger; its status was transferred to the enlarged borough. Hanley was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1857 and became a county borough with the passage of the Local Government Act 1888.

It now acts as the city's main city-centre and shopping centre, the principal attraction being the Potteries Shopping Centre containing many high street chain stores.(3)

Sources:
(2) Wiki online, Staffordshire, England:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire
(3)Wiki online, Hanley, Staffordshire, England:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanley,_Staffordshire

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