A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
KIDSGROVE, a village in Wolstanton parish, and a chapelry partly also in Audley parish, Stafford.. The village stands near the Grand Trunk canal, the junction of the Crewe, Stoke, and Uttoxeter railway with the North Stafford line to Macclesfield, and near the boundary with Cheshire, 7 miles NNW of Stoke-upon-Trent; and has a station with telegraph at the railway junction, and a post office‡ under Stoke-upon-Trent. The chapelry was constituted in 1852. Pop. in 1861, 3, 697. Houses, 691. Pop. of the Wolstanton portion, 3, 380. Houses, 633. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in the manufacture of bar iron and in mining. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £280.* Patron, Mrs. Kinnersly. The church is modern.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Audley CP/AP Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Kidsgrove |
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