Kidsgrove
Kidsgrove is a
town in the
borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in
Staffordshire,
England, near the border with
Cheshire. It has a population of 24,112 (2001 census). From the
eighteenth century, it grew around
coal mining, although the mines have now closed.
Clough Hall Mansion in the town, now demolished, was a local
theme park.
Thomas Telford designed the
Harecastle Tunnel on the
Trent and Mersey Canal near the town. Kidsgrove also marks the southern extremity of the
Macclesfield Canal.
Kidsgrove was made an
urban district from 1904 with the abolition of the
Wolstanton Rural District, including the parishes of Kidsgrove and
Newchapel.
Talke, previously part of the
Audley urban district, was added in 1932. [
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Bathpool Park, south of the town is where
Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, took 17-year-old
Lesley Whittle after kidnapping her in
1975, and ultimately, where he killed her.
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