Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TEAN

TEAN, two hamlets and a chapelry in Checkley parish, Stafford. The hamlets are Lower T. and Upper T.; they lie on the river Tean, 2½ miles S by E of Cheadle, and 2½ N by W of Leigh r. station; and Upper T. has a post-office‡ under Stafford. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Pop., 1,171. Houses, 282. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150.* Patron, the Rector of Checkley.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "two hamlets and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Checkley CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Upper Tean

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