Waterfall, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Waterfall, a village and a parish in Staffordshire, 5 miles NE of Froghall station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 7 SE of Leek. The parish includes also part of the village of Waterhouses and the hamlet of Winkhill, the former having a post and money order office under Ashborne; telegraph office, Oakamoor. Acreage, 1635; population of the civil parish, 354; of the ecclesiastical, 429. There are colour, corn, and leather-board mills. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Cauldon. The church is Norman, and was partly rebuilt in 1890. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Waterhouses, and a Wesleyan chapel at Winkhill.

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.

Church Records

Findmypast, in association with the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archive Service have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Waterfall

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Waterfall from the following:

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

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Staffordshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Waterfall 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Staffordshire newspapers online:

• Staffordshire Advertiser
• Tamworth Herald
• Lichfield Mercury
• Staffordshire Sentinel
• Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser

Villages, Hamlets, &c