Onecote

ONECOTE, a township and a chapelry, in the parish and union of Leek, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow and of the county of Stafford, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Leek; containing 427 inhabitants. It comprises 4957 acres, nearly the whole of which is grassland. This township and that of Bradnop form the manor of Bradnop, of which William Sneyd, Esq., is lord. There are rich copper-mines at Mixen, and small portions of copper and lead are found imbedded among limestone in most of the hills in the neighbourhood. The village, which is scattered, lies on the road from Cheadle to Longnor. Within the chapelry is a deep valley surrounded by rocks, called Narrowdale, to the inhabitants of which the rays of the sun are invisible, during several months in the year. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £99; patron, the Vicar of Leek. The chapel is a small structure of stone.