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Talke

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Talke

Talke Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ824533
Civil parish	Kidsgrove
District	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	STOKE-ON-TRENT
Postcode district	ST7
Dialling code	01782

Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands

UK Parliament	Stoke-on-Trent North
List of places UK England Staffordshire 53°04′37″N 2°15′47″W / 53.077°N 2.263°W / 53.077; -2.263

Talke is a village in the civil parishofKidsgrove, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in Staffordshire, England. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Kidsgrove.

Etymology

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Its unusual name is derived from the even more unusual "Talk o' th' Hill" which means 'bush on top of the hill'.^[1] Talke is mentioned in the Domesday BookasTalc in 1086.

History

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The Talk-o'-th'-Hill Colliery, the scene of a fatal explosion on 13 December 1866; where 91 miners were killed.

Talke was made a civil parish on 1932 from the parish of Audley, being transferred from the disbanded Audley Urban DistricttoKidsgrove Urban District.^[2] on 1 April 1974 it was absorbed and became part of the parish of Kidsgrove in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.^[3]

In 1951 the parish had a population of 6099.^[4]

Talke and Talke Pits were formerly mining sites, which is why there are road names such as Coal Pit Hill.

Borders

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Talke borders on Talke Pits, Kidsgrove and Butt Lane. It is on the border of Staffordshire and Cheshire. The ancient bluebell wood at Parrot's Drumble is nearby. ^[5]

Notable people

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Thomas Alcock (1789-1870), Early Primitive Methodist preacher, his name appeared on the first handwritten plan of the Tunstall Circuit in 1810. He is number 12 on the first printed plan. Thomas’ brother William also appeared on the first plan. In 1818, William Alcock was No. 6 on the Tunstall circuit plan.
Enoch Edwards (1852 in Talk-o'-the Hill – 1912) was a British trade unionist and politician, a Lib-Lab MP for Hanley in 1906, then a Labour Party MP in 1909.
Frederick Heath-Caldwell (1858–1945), British Army officer and RAF general, inherited the Linley Wood estate near the village
Reginald Mitchell (1895–1937), the creator of the Spitfire aeroplane, was a native of local village, Butt Lane.^[6]
Ada Nield Chew (1870 – 1945) Suffragist and labour organiser.^[7]^[8]
Margaret O'Flynn (1920–2014), gynaecologist and pioneer of contraception services for women.

References

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^ "Literary Heritage - Talke". Shropshire County Council. Archived from the original on 29 December 2006. Retrieved 14 January 2007.

^ "Unit history of Talke". A Vision of Britain. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2007.

^ "Newcastle-under-Lyme Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 22 February 2023.

^ "Population statistics Talke CP/PA through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 22 February 2023.

^ "Parrots Drumble". Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 25 November 2021.

^ Ritchie, Sebastian. "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010.

^ "Ada Nield Chew". Nantwich Museum. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

^ "Chew, Ada Nield (1870–1945), labour organizer and suffragist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39080. Retrieved 27 December 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

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Media related to Talke at Wikimedia Commons

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