Kidsgrove

Kidsgrove is a town in the ward of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, close to the Cheshire outskirt. It is a piece of the Potteries Urban Area in West Staffordshire, alongside Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. It has a populace of 24,112 2001 evaluation, diminishing to 23,756 at the 2011 Census. Most of the town is in the Kidsgrove ward, while the western part is in Ravenscliffe. From the eighteenth century, Kidsgrove developed around coal mining, despite the fact that the pits have now shut. Clough Hall Mansion in the town is currently obliterated.

The specialist James Brindley cut the principal Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal close to the town; Thomas Telford cut the second. Kidsgrove likewise denotes the southern limit of the Macclesfield Canal. There is a legend with respect to a headless phantom that is said to frequent the Harecastle Tunnel. The apparition is said to be that of a young lady who was killed inside the passage. She is alluded to as the "Kidsgrove Boggart".

Kidsgrove was made a urban locale in 1904 with the cancelation of the Wolstanton Rural District, including the areas of Kidsgrove and Newchapel. Talke, beforehand part of the Audley Urban District, was included 1932. Kidsgrove is served by Kidsgrove railroad station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 9 October 1848 as Harecastle, later getting to be Kidsgrove Central. This railroad station is as yet open as an intersection now Kidsgrove.