Ranscliff, or Ravenscliff
RANSCLIFF, or Ravenscliff, a township, in the ecclesiastical district of Tunstall, parish of Wolstanton, union of Wolstanton and Burslem, N. division of the hundred of Pirehill and of the county of Stafford, 3 miles (N. W.) from Burslem; containing 967 inhabitants. The township contains 375 acres, and abounds with coal and ironstone, which are worked to a considerable extent. The population are principally seated at the village of Kidsgrove, of which the greater part is in this township.—See Kidsgrove.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.