Onecote in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"ONECOTE, (or Oncott), a township and chapelry in the parish of Leek, N. division of the hundred of Totmonslow, county Stafford, 5 miles S.E. of Leek, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Hamps, and is chiefly agricultural. There are copper mines at Mixon, and traces of copper and lead are found imbedded among limestone in most of the hills. Within this chapelry is a deep valley surrounded by rocks called Narrowdale, where the sun is invisible for several months in the year.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £110, in the patronage of the Vicar of Leek. The church is a small stone edifice, with a tower containing one bell. The local charities produce about £11 4s. per annum, of which £10 is from land, and the remainder from the interest of £30 left by Joan Adsetts in 1788. The money is divided among the poor of Onecote and Bradnop.

 

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]