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. {Link without Title}

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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