Goldenhill is an area on the northern edge of Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, England. It is centred along the High Street, part of the

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that runs from south-east to north-west. It is about north of Tunstall and south-east of Kidsgrove. Its altitude is , the highest point in Stoke-on-Trent.'Tunstall', in'' A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8'', ed. J G Jenkins (London, 1963), pp. 81-104.
British History Online, accessed 21 September 2016.

History

Goldenhill is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. The village existed by 1670, and is shown in

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's map of Staffordshire dated 1682. In 1775 it was nearly as large as Tunstall, and grew further during the 19th century.Goldenhill
Staffordshire Past Track, accessed 29 September 2016. It is thought there was pottery manufacture of coarse ware in Goldenhill during the 16th century. At the beginning of the 19th century there were six potteries works. During the century pottery manufacture became more concentrated in Tunstall, which had 13 potteries by 1834, compared with two in Goldenhill; in 1863 there were 19 potteries in Tunstall and one in Goldenhill, which closed soon afterwards. There was coal mining on a small scale in the 1700s.

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, builder of the

Harecastle Tunnel Harecastle Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Staffordshire between Kidsgrove and Tunstall. The tunnel, which is long, was once one of the longest in the country. Its industrial purpose was for the transport of coal ...

in the 1770s, built a branch canal from the tunnel to an underground wharf of a colliery in Goldenhill in which he had a share; by 1820 this had become unsafe and was closed. The Goldenhill Colliery, in Colclough Lane, excavating coal and

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, was owned by Robert Williamson in the mid 19th century. It was still operating in the 1920s, but was closed by 1931. The Potteries Waterworks Company, formed in 1847, supplied water to Goldenhill and Kidsgrove by pumping water from a steam pumping plant in Tunstall, built in 1854, to a new reservoir on the higher ground at Goldenhill. The

Potteries Loop Line The Potteries Loop Line was a railway line that connected Stoke-on-Trent to Mow Cop and Scholar Green via Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall and Kidsgrove. It ran between Staffordshire and Cheshire in England. It served three of the six towns of Stoke ...

, built in 1873, was extended to Goldenhill in 1874 and Goldenhill railway station was opened. The Loop Line, including Goldenhill station, was closed to passengers in 1964.

Churches

The Anglican Church of St John the Evangelist, on High Street, was built in 1841 in Romanesque style. It is a Grade II

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. In poor condition and with a small congregation, it closed in 2014. In April 2016, after a local consultation, it was decided that the War Memorial in the grounds of the church would be relocated to Goldenhill Methodist Church. The Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph, built in 1951–1953, is on High Street. The present-day Methodist Church is on High Street. There was originally a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built on High Street in 1822; it was replaced in 1868. A Primitive Methodist chapel was built at Goldenhill in 1833. From 1892 to 1900 there was a

Methodist New Connexion The Methodist New Connexion, also known as Kilhamite Methodism, was a Protestant nonconformist church. It was formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists, and merged in 1907 with the Bible Christian Church and the United Methodist F ...

chapel.'The city of Stoke-on-Trent: Protestant Nonconformity', in ''A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 8'', ed. J G Jenkins (London, 1963), pp. 276-307.
British History Online, accessed 26 September 2016.

References

External links

Sandyford and Goldenhill Residents Association

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