Madeley in 1872

MADELEY, a village, a township, and a parish in Newcastle-under-Lyne district, Stafford. The village stands adjacent to the Northwestern railway, 2 miles E of the meeting-point with Salop and Cheshire, and 4 W by S of Newcastle-under-Lyne; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Newcastle, Staffordshire. The township contains also the hamlet of Little Madeley. Real property, £7,782; of which £400 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1,423; in 1861, 1,725. Houses, 350. The parish contains also the township of Onnely, and comprises 5,734 acres. Real property, £8,730. Pop. in 1851, 1,655; in 1861, 1,940. Houses, 392.

The property is divided among a few. Madeley House is a chief residence. The land is hilly and well wooded. Coal is worked, brick-making is carried on, and nails are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £266. Patron, the Hon. Mrs. C. Offley. The church is ancient but good; and contains monuments of the Egertons and others. There are a chapel of ease, a Wesleyan chapel, a free school and alms-houses with jointly £95 a-year from endowment, and other charities £60.

ONNELEY, a township in Madeley parish, Stafford; 6 miles WSW of Newcastle-under-Lyne. Real property, £948. Pop., 315. Houses, 42.

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]