Mow Cop

Mow Cop

Coordinates: 53°06′47″N 2°13′03″W / 53.112973°N 2.217582°W / 53.112973; -2.217582



Mow Cop
Mow Cop Castle
Mow Cop Castle
Mow Cop is located in Cheshire
Mow Cop

 Mow Cop shown within Cheshire
OS grid reference SJ855573
Parish Odd Rode
Kidsgrove
District Cheshire East
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Shire county Cheshire
Staffordshire
Region North West
West Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town STOKE-ON-TRENT
Postcode district ST7
Dialling code 01782
Police Cheshire
Staffordshire
Fire Cheshire
Staffordshire
Ambulance North West
West Midlands
EU Parliament North West England
West Midlands
UK Parliament Congleton
Staffordshire Moorlands
List of places: UK • England • Cheshire

Mow Cop (play /ˈmˈkɒp/) is an isolated village which straddles the CheshireStaffordshire border, and is thus divided between the North West and West Midlands regions of England. It is 24 miles south of Manchester and 6 miles north of Stoke-on-Trent.

The name is first recorded as "Mowel" around 1270 AD, and is believed to be derived from either the Anglo-Saxon Mūga-hyll, meaning "heap-hill", with copp = "head" added later, or the Common Celtic ancestor of Welsh moel (= hill), with Anglo-Saxon copp added later.

At the village's summit, men once quarried stone to make into querns, used since the Iron Age for milling corn; this trade ended during the Victorian period. The village also has a long history of coal mining. Mow Cop Castle is a folly of a ruined castle at the summit of the hill, built in 1754. The village was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on October 9, 1848. Mow Cop is known for its 'Killer Mile', a one mile road race from the level crossing on the western side of the hill, up to the Castle. The race was originated in the early 1980s by John Britton, and sponsored by ICL (Kidsgrove). It continues today, organised by the Mow Cop Residents' Association. Mow Cop Runners, a local running club founded in 2009, meet at The Ash Inn and organise The Mow Cop Hill Race, a 6.5 mile fell race.

Mow Cop is also noteworthy as the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement. Starting in 1800, Hugh Bourne from Stoke-on-Trent and William Clowes from Burslem began holding open-air prayer meetings. On 31 May 1807, a large 14-hour camp meeting was held and as a result the Primitive Methodist Church was formed in 1810. These camp meetings became a regular feature at Mow Cop, with camps later held to celebrate the 100th, 150th and 200th anniversaries of the first camp.

The village features prominently in the 1973 novel Red Shift by Alan Garner.

Notable residents

  • Charles Machin : former Port Vale F.C. director
  • Alan Jones : former Port Vale Football Club director

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