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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
