Newchapel, Staffordshire
Historical Description
Newchapel, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Wolstanton parish, Staffordshire. The village lies half a mile N of Goldenhill station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 2½ miles N of Tunstall. It has a post and money order office under Stoke-upon-Trent; telegraph office, Tunstall. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. Population, 6231. It includes the townships of Thursfield, Wedgwood, Great and Little Chell, Stadmoreslow, and part of Brieryhurst. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. It also sends one member to the rural district council. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £200 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1880, and is in the Early English style. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, a chapel of ease at Great Chell, and another at Brindley Ford.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Newchapel
Maps
Online maps of Newchapel 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)