Onecote, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Onecote, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Leek parish, Staffordshire. The village stands on the river Hamps, 5½ miles E by S of Leek. It has a post office under Leek; money order and telegraph office, Leek. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Acreage, 4936; population, 401. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The ecclesiastical parish contains also the township of Bradnop, and was constituted in 1863; population, 851. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £130 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leek. The church was built in 1755 and enlarged in 1835, is good, and has a tower. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Onecote, and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels at Bradnop.

Administration

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Onecote from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Onecote 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)