Kidsgrove, Staffordshire

Description
Kidsgrove, a small town in Wolstanton parish, and an ecclesiastical parish partly also in Audley parish, Staffordshire. The town stands near the Trent and Mersey Canal, and near the boundary with Cheshire, 2 miles NW of Tun-stall, and 7 NNW of Stoke-upon-Trent, and has stations at Kidsgrove and Harecastle on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post office under Stoke-upon-Trent. It is governed by a local board of twelve members, and has an assembly-room and a police station. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1852. Population, 3841. There are collieries and ironworks. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £400 with residence. The church is modern. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.