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A History of the County of Stafford
… as far as Merryton Low on the boundary with Onecote, in Leek parish. 43 Brooks form part of the boundary on the … The road was disturnpiked in 1878. 82 The road between Leek and Longnor running over Lady Edge and on the north-west … later 14th century and was later a packhorse way. 83 The Leek & Manifold Valley light railway, opened in 1904, ran …
A History of the County of Stafford
… a nearby house (the present Mermaid inn) in Onecote, in Leek parish. 98 A belief that the pool was bottomless and … poem 'Mary, the Maid of the Inn', written in 1796. 99 The Leek-Buxton road through Heathylee was laid out in the later … the road from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Hassop (Derb.) via Leek and Longnor, turnpiked in 1765. 1 Two miles north of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… until the early 19th century was the route between the Leek-Buxton road, just over the Quarnford boundary, and … its poor separately from 1733. 34 It became part of Leek poor-law union in 1837. 35 CHURCH. From the late 17th … the later 1940s, the senior children being transferred to Leek. 61 Hollinsclough school took controlled status in 1955. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was the second largest ancient parish in the county after Leek. Alstonefield village, in the south-east corner of the … town is Buxton (Derb.), 6 miles north-west of Longnor. Leek is 10 miles from both Alstonefield and Longnor. The … area, 2,707 a. (1,095 ha.) in 1994 extending from the Leek-Buxton road in Heathylee nearly to Warslow village. The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… which operated between Longnor, Hartington (Derb.), and Leek three days a week in 1829 82 may have been based in … as a postman that year, and by 1834 letters were sent to Leek three days a week by horse post from a post office in … a sub-branch of the District Bank which was opened from Leek in 1864; it was closed in 1866. 84 Longnor in the 19th …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was probably responsible for improving c. 1840 the former Leek-Buxton road runnning to the village over Goldsitch Moss. 97 There was a village post office by 1904. 98 The Leek-Buxton road formerly entered the township near Goldsitch … road between Newcastleunder-Lyme and Hassop (Derb.) via Leek and Longnor, turnpiked in 1765. A tollgate called Flash …
A History of the County of Stafford
… river Hamps forms the western boundary with Onecote, in Leek parish. In 1934 183 a. centred on Herbage in … the road across Lum Edge mentioned in 1662. 66 The Leek & Manifold Valley light railway, opened in 1904, ran … which operated between Longnor, Hartington (Derb.), and Leek three days a week in 1829 passed through Warslow, and in …
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