Paging the handwriting experts. (and Staffordshire peeps)

What is the word to the right of "Staffordshire" ?

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Hanley?

Part of Stoke on Trent.

to be the only name that fits - can't vouch for how exhaustive the list is.

Maybe Haunton?

Take your pick from the H's...

Haules? There's a "Hales" in Staffs. Spelling in days gone by was, as
you know, as well-regarded as was hygiene...

So there is. I rode through it two years ago, on the way to Blore
Heath.

No, it's almost certainly an N, not a U. Comparison with the Ns in
Lancashire and the many instances of 'son' support this, whereas the
Us in 'daughter' are all much more regular and rounded.

I think the old/misspelling of Hanlea/Hanley is almost certainly
correct. There is another Hanley in Warwickshire that has had that
deviant spelling in the past.

Odd. As others have pointed out, Hanley would be the most likely - all
the letters up to the Y are consistent with the rest of the writing,
including the ambiguous N, but the Y is very strange. Sure, it's a bit
smudged, and maybe the scan has missed something, but everywhere else
the tail of the letter is very pronounced. It looks more likely to me
that the writer simply trascribed it incorrectly.

It's certainly HANL....

Hanley? except the y doesn't look right.

No its definitely Harley...

Chris D

Dunno. It could be one of those places that changed it's spelling in
recent times. Squint and look for homonyms.