Newchapel, Staffordshire

Description
Newchapel, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Wolstanton parish, Staffordshire. The village lies half a mile N of Goldenhill station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 2 1/2 miles N of Tunstall. It has a post and money order office under Stoke-upon-Trent; telegraph office, Tunstall. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. Population, 6231. It includes the townships of Thursfield, Wedgwood, Great and Little Chell, Stadmoreslow, and part of Brieryhurst. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. It also sends one member to the rural district council. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £200 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1880, and is in the Early English style. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, a chapel of ease at Great Chell, and another at Brindley Ford.