In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mowcop like this:
MOWCOP, or Molecop, a village in Wolstanton parish, and a chapelry partly also in Biddulph parish, Stafford. The village stands under Molecop Hill, adjacent to the boundary with Cheshire, and near the Macclesfield, Norton-Bridge, and Colwich railway, 3¾ miles S by E of Congleton; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Stoke-upon-Trent. ...
The chapelry was constituted in 1843. Pop. in 1861, 2, 135. Houses, 453. Pop. of the Wolstanton portion, 1, 797. Houses, 386. The property is much subdivided. Molecop Hill rises to an altitude of 1,091 feet. Many of the inhabitants are employed in pottery-works. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £162.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is modern. There are dissenting chapels and public schools.
Mowcop through time
Mowcop is now part of Newcastle under Lyme district. Click here for graphs and data of how Newcastle under Lyme has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mowcop itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mowcop, in Newcastle under Lyme and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21020
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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