Pirehill Hundred

Pirehill
Former subdivision of England
History
• Origin	Anglo-Saxon period
• Created	10th century
• Abolished	1894
• Succeeded by	various
Status	Obsolete
Government	Hundred
Subdivisions
• Type	Parishes (see text)
• Units	Parishes

Pirehill is a hundred in the county of Staffordshire, England. The Hundred is located in the north-west and toward the upper centre of Staffordshire. It is about 28 miles in length, north to south, and around 8 to 20 miles in breadth. It is bounded on the north-east by Totmonslow (Totmanslow) Hundred, on the east by Offlow Hundred, on the south by Cuttleston Hundred, and on the west and north-west by Shropshire and Cheshire.^[1]

The River Trent rises at its northern extremity and flows through it in a south-easterly direction, passing Trentham, where it becomes somewhat navigable, then Ingestre, Shugborough and Wolseley; and nearly parallel with that river now runs the Trent and Mersey Canal. It contains the boroughs of Stafford, the county town, the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme and the city of Stoke-on-Trent, which latter includes the Potteries. Besides these, Pirehill has six market towns: Burslem, Hanley, Lane-End, Stone, Eccleshall, and Abbots Bromley.