BUCKNALL, a parish, joint with Bagnall, in the
northern division of the hundred of PIREHILL, county
of STAFFORD, 1 mile (E.) from Hanley. The population
is returned with Stoke upon Trent. The living is
a rectory not in charge, with the perpetual curacy of
Bagnall annexed, in the archdeaconry of .Stafford, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £100
and £5 per annum, private benefaction, and £600
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. Edward
Powys. The church ig dedicated to St. Mary.
Bucknall was formerly a chapelry in the parish of
Stoke upon Trent, but, with four other chapelries, was
severed from it by an act passed in 1807, by which,
including the chapelry of Bagnall, this was constituted
a distinct rectory. William Shallcross, in 1719, gave a
rent-charge of £5 for the instruction of twelve children.