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.
Ancient County | Staffordshire | |
Civil parish | Wolstanton | |
Hundred | Pirehill | |
Poor Law union | Wolstanton and Burslem |
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)