Biddulph MoorExtract from Kelly's Directory of Staffordshire, 1896.Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2012 BIDDULPH MOOR, consisting of a plateau of pasture lands about 4 miles by 2, having Biddulph valley on the west and Churnet valley on the east, is a separate ecclesiastical parish, formed 5 Feb. 1864, from the parishes of Biddulph and Horton. Christ Church, opened in the summer of 1863, is a building of stone, in the Norman style, erected at a cost of £1,700, and partially endowed at the expense of James Bateman esq. D.L., J.P., M.A., F.R.S.; it consists of chancel and nave and a turret containing one bell, and affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1863. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £56, net yearly value £223, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of Robert Heath esq. J.P. and held since 1884 by the Rev. Daniel Higham Sparling B.A. of University College, Durham. The population in 1891 was 1,196. The Mission church, Childerplay, erected in 1880 at the expense of Robert Heath esq. J.P. is an edifice in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1856, and one for Primitive Methodists, erected in 1854. The poor have £4. 10s. as the interest of £100 left in 1812 by William Carter. The Alsager Charity, amounting to £15 yearly, is for five lone women; there are also five almshouses, built by the inhabitants of Biddulph in 1860, in memory of the late John Bateman esq. D.L. of Knypersley Hall, who died in 1859. At KNYPERSLEY is an unconsecrated church, with school-house, built at a cost of £10,000, by the late John Bateman esq. of Knypersley Hall: it is an edifice in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, and a tower on the north-west containing one bell: a new organ was erected in 1895, at a cost of upwards of £450. Bradley Green is a village 1 mile south of Biddulph church, and has Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. POST, M.O. & T.O., S.B., Express Delivery, Annuity & Insurance Office, Bradley Green.- John Thomas Oakes, postmaster. Letters arrive from Congleton at 7.30 a.m. & 5 p.m.; dispatched, 10.20 a.m. & 5.55 p.m. Money orders granted & paid from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m WALL LETTER BOXES:- URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE PORTION OF LEEK PETTY
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