Mow Cop, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Mow Cop, a village in Wolstanton parish, and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Biddulph parish, Staffordshire. The village stands under Mow Cop Hill, adjacent to the boundary witli Cheshire, 2 miles NE of Kidsgrove, and 2 E of Mow Cop station on the North Staffordshire railway. It has a post and money order office under Stoke-upon-Trent; telegraph office, at the railway station. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1841, and includes also the villages of Dales Green and Rookery, and part of that of Harrisea-head. Population, 1709. Mow Cop Hill rises to an altitude of 1091 feet. Many of the inhabitants are employed in iron and coal works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £175. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Mow Cop
Maps
Online maps of Mow Cop are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)