Mow Cop

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Mow Cop
Mow Cop shown within Cheshire
OS grid reference	SJ855573
Parish	Odd Rode
	Kidsgrove
District	Congleton
	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Shire county	Cheshire
	Staffordshire
Region	North West
	West Midlands
Constituent 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
European Parliament	North West England
	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Congleton
	Staffordshire Moorlands
List of places: UK • England • Cheshire

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

Mow Cop is a village on a high isolated hill. The village straddles the Cheshire - Staffordshire border, and in this capacity, is also divided along the North West and West Midlands of England.

The name came from the Anglo-Saxon Mūga-hyll = "heap-hill", with copp = "head" added later.

At its summit men had quarried stone to make into querns used for milling corn since the Iron Age; this trade ended in the Victorian period.

Mow Cop Castle is a folly of a ruined castle at the summit of the hill, built in 1754.

Mow Cop is 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 31st 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 and camps were also held to celebrate the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the first camp.

Mow Cop was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on October 9, 1848.

Mow Cop features prominently in the 1973 novel Red Shift by Alan Garner.

[edit] External links

• http://www.mowcop.info/
• Map sources for Mow Cop

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