Kidsgrove
Kidsgrove is a town in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district , near the Cheshire border . It forms part of the pottery urban area in North Staffordshire , along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme . It has a population of 24,112 (2001 census). Most of the city is in the Kidsgrove district, with only the western part in Ravenscliffe.
history
Since the 18th century, Kidsgrove grew with the coal mining industry , which has since been shut down. Cloug Hall Mansion was a local theme park in the city that is now destroyed. The modern Kidsgrove is a commuter town whose house prices rose sharply in the first decade of the 21st century. Many people now work in the bigger cities like Manchester or Birmingham . The engineer James Brindley built the first Harecastle tunnel for the Trent-Mersey Canal near the city; Thomas Telford built the second. Kidsgrove also marks the southern end of the Macclesfield Canal . There is a legend about a headless ghost that is said to haunt the Harecastle Tunnel. The ghost is said to be that of a young woman who was murdered in the tunnel. It is called the Kidsgrove Boggart .
Kidsgrove was made an urban borough in 1904, with the abolition of the Wolstanton rural district, including the parishes of Kidsgrove and Newchapel. Talke , previously part of Audley Borough, was added in 1932.
Kidsgrove is home to Kidsgrove Railway Station, opened as Harecastle by the North Staffordshire Railroad on October 9, 1848 , and later renamed Kidsgrove Central . This station is still a hub, albeit now under the name Kidsgrove . However, there were two other stops on the closed loop line , namely Kidsgrove Liverpool Road, opened November 15, 1875 and Market Street Halt, opened July 1, 1909.
The city has a library, post office, health center, bank and supermarket. There are smaller shops, restaurants and snack bars in Marktstrasse.
Sports
Kidsgrove Athletic FC plays in the Northern Premier League Division One South.
Kidsgrove also has a cricket club, the Kidsgrove CC.
Famous pepole
- Reginald Joseph Mitchell , developer of the Royal Air Force Aviator in the Battle of Britain , the Spitfire , was born in the village of Butt Lane, Kidsgrove.
- Brewster Mason, actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company , 1922–1987
Bathpool Park, south of town, is where serial killer Donald Neilson, known as the Black Panther , brought 17-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle after he kidnapped her and before he murdered her.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ N , 2 ° 14 ′ W