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Kidsgrove
Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the Cheshire border. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. It has a population of 26,276 (2019 census). Most of the town is in the Kidsgrove ward, whilst the western part is in Ravenscliffe. History From the 18th century, Kidsgrove grew around coal mining, although the pits have now closed. Clough Hall Mansion in the town is now demolished. The engineer James Brindley cut the first Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal near the town; Thomas Telford cut the second. Kidsgrove also marks the southern extremity of the Macclesfield Canal. There is a legend regarding a headless ghost that is said to haunt the Harecastle Tunnel. The ghost is said to be that of a young woman who was murdered inside the tunnel. She is referred to as the ''"Kidsgrove Boggart"''. R.J. Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire fighter aircraft, was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidsgrove Town Hall
Kidsgrove Town Hall is a municipal building in Liverpool Road in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Kidsgrove Town Council, is locally listed. History Following significant population growth, largely associated with the mining industry, the area became an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district in 1894. The newly-formed Kidsgrove Urban District, Kidsgrove Urban District Council decided to commission public offices as part of the celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. The site was donated by the local Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament, Sir James Heath, 1st Baronet, James Heath, and his family and foundation stones were laid by Heath and a former chairman of the council, John Smith, on 22 April 1897. The new building was designed by Absalom Reade Wood from the local firm of architects, Wood and Hutchings, in the Victorian architecture, Victorian style, built in red bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidsgrove Railway Station
Kidsgrove railway station serves the town of Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, England. The station is north of . The station is served by trains on the Crewe–Derby line which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. History The present station was opened 9 October 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway as ''Harecastle'' and was during the early years of the North Staffordshire era variously called ''Harecastle Junction'', ''Kidsgrove Junction''. ''Kidsgrove Junction, Harecastle'' before settling upon ''Harecastle'' in 1875. Between 1885 and 1886 and 1923 and 1924 it was called ''Harecastle for Kidsgrove''. In 1944 it was renamed Kidsgrove. In British Rail days it was known as ''Kidsgrove Central'' when the town had three stations, the other two were and on the old North Staffordshire Railway's Potteries Loop Line (all three stations were opened by the North Staffordshire Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Railway Station
Kidsgrove Liverpool Road railway station was the northernmost station on the Potteries Loop Line and served the town of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It was opened as Kidsgrove in 1875, but renamed in 1944 when the nearby Harecastle station became Kidsgrove railway station. Many of the locals from Kidsgrove who remember Kidsgrove Railway Station can still refer to it as Harecastle as well as Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Station before and after 1944 but also faced the Beeching Report in 1963 which listed it for closure and then closed to passengers in 1964 but the lines would have been remained in use until the electrification of the mainline and then the signal box remained until 1975. Unlike the Mainline which will go from Kidsgrove to Macclesfield or onwards to Manchester and Liverpool, The site of Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Station is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley Whittle
The kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle occurred on 14 January 1975. Whittle, a teenage heiress, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Highley, Shropshire, by Donald Neilson; a notorious burglar and murderer known as the Black Panther. Whittle was driven 65 miles from her home to an underground drainage shaft of a reservoir at Bathpool Park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, where she was tethered, naked, upon a narrow platform below ground by a wire noose affixed around her neck and with a hood placed over her head as Neilson made several unsuccessful attempts to collect a £50,000 ransom from her family over the following days. She is believed to have either fallen to her death from this shaft, or been pushed to her death by Neilson, on or about 17 January, causing her to die of vagal inhibition. Her emaciated body was discovered hanging from this shaft on 7 March 1975. The kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle dominated national headlines for eleven months; the inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle-under-Lyme (borough)
The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Staffordshire, England. It is named after the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the council is based. The borough also includes the town of Kidsgrove and several villages and surrounding rural areas lying generally to the west of Newcastle itself. Most of the borough's built-up areas form part of The Potteries Urban Area. The neighbouring districts are Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent, Borough of Stafford, Stafford, Shropshire (district), Shropshire and Cheshire East. History The town of Newcastle-under-Lyme was an ancient borough, established in the 12th century. It is known to have been granted a charter (since lost) around 1173 by Henry II of England, Henry II. The earliest surviving charter dates from 1235. The borough was formally incorporated in 1590 under a new charter from Elizabeth I. The borough was reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 to the kilns in the Staffordshire Potteries. The canal runs under the Harecastle Hill near Goldenhill, the highest district 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. Although described singularly as a tunnel, Harecastle is actually two separate but parallel tunnels built almost 50 years apart. The first was constructed by |
Newchapel, Staffordshire
Newchapel is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Kidsgrove, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 4135. Newchapel was originally named Thursfield. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Turvoldesfeld. After the Reformation in the 17th century the land reverted to private ownership, the new owner built a stone Chapel and the village was renamed Newchapel. Thursfield was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Wolstanton, On 31 December 1894 it became a civil parish in its own right. From 1894 to 1904 Newchapel formed part of Wolstanton Rural District. After re-organisation of boundaries, from 1904 to 1974 it was part of Kidsgrove Urban District; following the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 it was absorbed and became part of the parish of Kidsgrove in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Newchapel was served by a railway station (shared with Goldenhill), New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 on Trent (Hanley, Burslem and Tunstall). It was opened in many short sections due to the cost of railway construction during the 1870s. The line throughout was sanctioned but the North Staffordshire Railway felt that the line would be unimportant enough to abandon part way through its construction. This upset residents of the towns through which the line was planned to pass and they eventually petitioned Parliament to force the completion of the route. Stoke-on-Trent_Station_geograph-2158139.jpg, Stoke Station 1965 Burslem railway station 1952820 dbe40abb.jpg, Burslem Station 1962 Construction The line was authorised and constructed as follows: * Etruria - Shelton: authorised for construction on 2 July 1847, opening for goods in 1850 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Market Street Halt Railway Station
Market Street Halt was a halt that served the town of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. It was opened in 1909 and located on the Potteries Loop Line of the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR). At first it was used by trains in both directions but was later served only by northbound trains due to the severe gradient, being a 1 in 40 climb southbound. Although only a halt, it had a considerable length of platform and modest wooden buildings, plus an old NSR carriage used as a waiting room A waiting room or waiting hall is a building, or more commonly a part of a building or a room, where people sit or stand until the event or appointment for which they are waiting begins. There are two types of physical waiting room. One has in .... Like the first Loop Line station Waterloo Road which closed to passengers in 1943 and 1966-69 to goods and oil traffic Kidsgrove Market Street Halt itself the second Loop Line Station closed in 1950 to passengers and goods until the line was lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke-on-Trent North (UK Parliament Constituency)
Stoke-on-Trent North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by David Williams, a member of the Labour Party. Boundaries Historic 1950–1955: The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent wards numbers 1 to 9 and 27. 1955–1983: The County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent wards numbers 1 to 8. 1983–1997: The City of Stoke-on-Trent wards of Burslem Central, Burslem Green, Chell, East Valley, Norton and Bradeley, and Tunstall North, and the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme wards of Butt Lane, Kidsgrove, Newchapel, and Talke. 1997–2010: The City of Stoke-on-Trent wards of Burslem Central, Burslem Grange, Chell, East Valley, Norton and Bradeley, and Tunstall North, and the District of Staffordshire Moorlands wards of Brown Edge and Endon, and Stanley. 2010–2024: The City of Stoke-on-Trent wards of Burslem North, Burslem South, Chell and Packmoor, East Valley, Norton and Bradeley, and Tunstall, and the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme wards of But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenscliffe Ward
Ravenscliffe is an area of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England, lying south of the town centre and west of Sandyford. The name Ravenscliffe was used for a ward in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England. It is named after the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the council is based. The borough also includes the town of Kidsgrove ..., which covered part of Kidsgrove along with the area of Acres Nook; in 2011 the ward had a population of 4007. As of 2023, the area is part of Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe ward. References Former wards of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Kidsgrove {{Staffordshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
