Harriseahead

Harriseahead

infobox UK place

country = England
official_name= Harriseahead
latitude= 53.1003
longitude= -2.2093

population =
shire_district= Newcastle-under-Lyme
shire_county= Staffordshire
region= West Midlands
constituency_westminster= Staffordshire Moorlands
post_town= Newcastle, Staffs
postcode_district= ST7
postcode_area=ST
dial_code= 01782
os_grid_reference= SJ860559

The village of Harriseahead on the northern edge of the Potteries (Stoke on Trent) is of historical interest.

Harriseahead

Harriseahead is a village in the county of Staffordshire, England,just north of Stoke on Trent and about 2 miles south-west of Biddulph and very close to the border with Cheshire.

Mow Cop Castle is on top of a hill just under a mile north of the village. It has been in the care of the National Trust since 1937, but has a history linking it with Methodism.

Links with Methodism

The link with Methodism came when Hugh Bourne moved to Harriseahead in 1800 having bought an oak woodland there to supply pit props in Stonetrough Colliery and other local mines. [Jesse Ashworth, "The Life of the Venerable Hugh Bourne, (1888)] [Joseph Ritson, "The Romance of Primitive Methodism", (1909)] . In 1801 to 1802 he built a Methodist Chapel which became the centre of Methodist activity in that area and beyond. The Primitive Methodist movement grew out of this.

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