Description:Weston Coyney is now a suburb on the west side of Longton, consisting mainly of large housing estates and a country park. Its modern appearance belies its history. It is recorded as a manor in the Domesday Book, 1086, as Westone, part of the lands of Robert de Stafford and held by Ernulf de Hesding. A considerable part of the manor was woodland, although there was enough arable land for three plough teams. The name means ‘west town’. During the Middle Ages the manor was held by the Coyney family. There was an extensive mediaeval deer park, created out of the woodland, and which is now absorbed into Park Hall Country Park.
Weston Coyney Hall was the seat of the of the Coyney family. It was a sizeable house with ten hearths in 1666 and it is shown on the map, which is included in Dr Robert Plot’s ‘Natural History of Staffordshire’, published in 1686. It remained in the Coyney family until about 1910 when the house was then bought by a Mr. Pattison. It was demolished in about 1944 and the site has been built over.
Park Hall was also in the manor of Weston Coyney. Another sizeable house with ten hearths in 1666, it is notable for having been the seat of the Parkers, a family of lawyers. Sir Thomas Parker, later Lord Macclesfield, was Lord Chancellor from 1718-1724. The Parkers later married into the Jervis family, the daughter of Lord Chief Baron Parker marrying John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent, the admiral who defeated the Spanish off Cape St. Vincent in 1797. A monument to Countess St Vincent by the sculptor Chantrey, erected in1818, is in Caverswall parish church. Park Hall was rebuilt in 1793, the old house having burned down and its parkland now forms part of the country park. In 1686 Plot noted that he was shown an oat-mill at “Mr Parker’s of Park Hall” which “husk’t the Oats and winnow’d them, and then ground them to meal: the last Mill that ground them, not being turned immediately by the water , but by two wheels whereof one was fastened to the runner of the first Mill, and the second to the runner of the grinding-Mill, a great rope interceding”.
Weston Coyney and Hulme were in the ancient parish of Caverswall.