| Stanley | |
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 Cottages in Stanley | |
  Stanley Location within Staffordshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 933 523 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Staffordshire |
| Fire | Staffordshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
Stanley is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Leek. The village of Bagnall is about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south.
Stanley was formerly a township in the parish of Leek, and later part of a civil parish with Endon (about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north) and Longsdon (about 3 miles (4.8 km) to the north-east). Since 1894 it has been in the civil parish of Endon and Stanley.[1]
The village lies mostly at height 500–600 feet (150–180 m). The name Stanley, probably referring to this site, means a clearing on stony ground. The terrain is of boulder clay, and the underlying rock is millstone grit.[1]
- ^ a b A P Baggs, M F Cleverdon, D A Johnston and N J Tringham, "Leek: Stanley", in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7, Leek and the Moorlands, ed. C R J Currie and M W Greenslade (London, 1996), pp. 229-232 British History Online. Retrieved 9 September 2019.