Rudyard, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Rudyard, a township in Leek parish, Staffordshire, 2½ miles NW of Leek. It has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post office under Leek; money order and telegraph office, Leek. Acreage, 1366 of land and 69 of water; population, 75. The manor belongs to the Earl of Macclesfield. Eudyard Lake, partly in this parish, is a reservoir of the Cauldon Canal, and is 2 miles long, and from 200 to 300 feet wide. Eudyard Hall, now a farmhouse, was the residence of Sir Benjamin Eudyard, a member of the Long Parliament and an accomplished scholar and wit.

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 Rudyard from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Rudyard 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)