Onecote in 1817

Description from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)

ONECOTE.

Onecote is a township belonging to the parish of Leek. It is situated to the north-west of Grindon, and contains 74 houses, 80 families; 246 males, 218 females: total number of inhabitants 464. Many of these people are employed in the copper and lead-mines of Ecton.

Narrowdale, in this township, is remarkable for the high rocks with which it is surrounded, and the inhabitants of which seldom behold the sun, and when it is visible, about one o'clock, they call it the Narrowdale noon.

Onecote Chapel is a chapel of ease, belonging to the vicarage of Leek.