Talke

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Village in Staffordshire, England

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::summary Village in Staffordshire, England ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Talke
coordinates
civil_parish	Kidsgrove
shire_district	Newcastle-under-Lyme
shire_county	Staffordshire
region	West Midlands
constituency_westminster	Stoke-on-Trent North
post_town	STOKE-ON-TRENT
postcode_district	ST7
postcode_area	ST
dial_code	01782
os_grid_reference	SJ824533
static_image	Talke Church and one of the many pubs - geograph.org.uk - 192510.jpg
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Talke is a village in the civil parish of Kidsgrove, in the Newcastle-under-Lyme district, in Staffordshire, England. It is 4 mi northwest of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 1.5 mi southwest of Kidsgrove.

Etymology

Its unusual name is derived from the even more unusual "Talk o' th' Hill" which means 'bush on top of the hill'. Talke is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Talc in 1086.

History

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/The_Talk-o'-th'-Hill_Colliery,_near_Newcastle-under-Lyne,_North_Staffordshire,_the_Scene_of_a_Late_Fatal_Explosion_ILN-1866-1229-0020.jpg" caption="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 District to Kidsgrove Urban District. on 1 April 1974 it was absorbed and became part of the parish of Kidsgrove in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

In 1951 the parish had a population of 6099.

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

Borders

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.

Notable people

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.
Ada Nield Chew (1870 – 1945) Suffragist and labour organiser.
Margaret O'Flynn (1920–2014), gynaecologist and pioneer of contraception services for women.

References

"Literary Heritage - Talke". Shropshire County Council.
"Unit history of Talke". A Vision of Britain.
"Newcastle-under-Lyme Registration District". UKBMD.
"Population statistics Talke CP/PA through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
"Parrots Drumble".
Ritchie, Sebastian. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35046 "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010.
"Ada Nield Chew".
(2004). "Chew, Ada Nield (1870–1945), labour organizer and suffragist".

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