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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Biddulph AP/CP Staffordshire AncC |
| Place names: | MOLECOP | MOWCOP | MOWCOP OR MOLECOP |
| Place: | Mowcop |
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