Kidsgrove, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Kidsgrove, a small town in Wolstanton parish, and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Audley parish, Staffordshire. The town stands near the Trent and Mersey Canal, and near the boundary with Cheshire, 2 miles NW of Tun-stall, and 7 NNW of Stoke-upon-Trent, and has stations at Kidsgrove and Harecastle on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post office under Stoke-upon-Trent. It is governed by a local board of twelve members, and has an assembly-room and a police station. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1852. Population, 3841. There are collieries and ironworks. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £400 with residence. The church is modern. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kidsgrove from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kidsgrove, or Kidcrew)

Maps

Online maps of Kidsgrove 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)