Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mowcop

Mowcop, eccl. dist. and ry. sta. (Mow Cop), Wolstanton and Biddulph pars., Staffordshire, on border of Cheshire - dist., pop. 2368; P.O.; the sta. (in Cheshire) is 3 miles SW. of Congleton sta.; Mow Cop (or Mole Cop) Hill is 1091 ft. high.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district and railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Staffordshire AncC
Place: Mowcop

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