Onecote in 1859

ONECOTE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of LEEK, N. division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW and of the county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Leek; containing 427 inhabitants. There are copper-mines at Mixen, and small portions of copper and lead are found imbedded among limestone in most of the hills in the neighbourhood.

Within the chapelry is a deep valley surrounded by rocks, called Narrowdale, to the inhabitants of which the rays of the sun are invisible, during several months in the year. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £99; patron, Vicar of Leek. The chapel is a small structure of stone. . 

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]