Grindon, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Grindon, a village and a parish in Staffordshire. The village lies between the rivers Manifold and Hamps, 8 miles SE of Leek. The parish includes also the hamlets of Deep-dale, Ford, Hillsdale, and Martinslow, and its post town is Leek. Acreage, 3274; population, 350. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £258 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was rebuilt in 1848, and has a tower with an octagonal spire; in the churchyard are two stone coffins and a stone font, discovered under the old church. A fair is held on the Tuesday on or next to 1 Nov.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Grindon

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Grindon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grindon (All Saints))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Grindon 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser

Villages, Hamlets, &c