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A History of the County of Staffordshire - XI: Audley, Keele and Trentham (Hardcover, New)
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A History of the County of Staffordshire - XI: Audley, Keele and Trentham (Hardcover, New)
Series: Victoria County History
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Comprehensive and authoritative history of north-west
Staffordshire, including Keele, Trentham and Audley. Covering the
hilly north-west part of the county from the Cheshire border to the
valley of the river Trent south of Newcastle-under-Lyme, this
volume treats parishes that lie mostly on the North Staffordshire
coalfield and where both coal and ironstone mining and iron-making
became important, especially in the nineteenth century. A rich
archive has been used to illustrate the origins of this industrial
activity in the Middle Ages, when the area was characterised by
scattered settlements, with an important manorial complex and a
grand fourteenth-century church at Audley, a hunting lodge for the
Stafford lords at Madeley, a small borough at Betley, and at Keele
and Trentham religioushouses which became landed estates with
mansion houses after the Dissolution. In the nineteenth century
Trentham gained fame for its spectacular gardens created by the
immensely rich dukes of Sutherland, and Keele rose to prominence in
1950 as the site of Britain's first campus university. After
coalmining ceased in the twentieth century several villages and
mining hamlets acquired large housing estates, which in Trentham
parish were absorbed into Stoke-on-Trent. Nigel Tringham is a
Senior Lecturer in History at Keele University, with special
responsibility for researching and writing the volumes of the
Staffordshire Victoria County History.
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