Aerial view of the Cheddleton Road area of Leek
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Ashcombe Park,Cheddleton
Originally there was Elizabethan mansion known as Botham Hall built on the site of the current house, surrounded by a deer park. In the late 18th century the house was owned by the Debank family, but ...
Asylum railway, Cheddleton
A view of the electric engine that powered the asylum train serving Leekbrook Asylum. This engine is now at the National Railway Museum in York.
This image is taken from the collection of the Churnet ...
Asylum railway, Cheddleton
An electric railway ran from Leekbrook to the asylum at Cheddleton. It ran for about a mile and was under the control of the asylum. It carried everything from the workforce, inmates, food and coal! ...
Asylum staff, Cheddleton
Staff pictured in the kitchen at Cheddleton Asylum. Standing far left and wearing a dark dress and holding a large bunch of keys is one of the female attendants.
In 1890 Staffordshire County Council’s ...
Asylum tokens, Cheddleton Asylum
Finding the right work for the right patient was vital to the asylum doctors and Superintendent, in order to maximise the therapeutic effect. Cheddleton Superintendent William Menzies was particularly ...
Basford Hall, Cheddleton
The Hall and estate stands on Basford Green within the old Manor of Cheddleton. It came into the possession of the Sneyd family in about 1815. Revd. John Sneyd commissioned the building of 'The Bathhouse' ...
Bridge over Endon Brook, near Cheddleton
View of a bridge over Endon Brook.
Brittain's Paper Mills, Caldon Canal, Cheddleton
A paper mill has stood on this site at Cheddleton since 1797, when the paper was made by hand. It was built by the pottery manufacturer William Adams to produce tissue paper for transfer printing in ...
Brittain's Paper Mills, Cheddleton
Brittain's Paper Mills with the Caldon Canal in the foreground. A paper mill has stood on this site at Cheddleton since 1797, when the paper was made by hand. It was built by the pottery manufacturer ...
Brittain's Paper Mills, Cheddleton
A view of Brittain's Paper Mills at Cheddleton with the Caldon Canal passing by. A paper mill has stood on this site at Cheddleton since 1797, when the paper was made by hand. It was built by the pottery ...
Building Cheddleton Asylum
The asylum at Cheddleton in Staffordshire was built to serve the Pottery towns and the area surrounding Leek.
Patients were referred to as "inmates", and anyone from people with a "mild affliction" ...
Canal Scene, Cheddleton
A view taken from the road bridge over the Caldon Canal at Cheddleton Wharf looking eastwards. In the background are the chimneys of Brittain's paper mill.
A paper mill has stood on the present site ...
Canal wharf buildings, Cheddleton
Wharf buildings on the Caldon Canal at 10, Cheadle Road, Cheddleton.
Cheddleton
View of Cheddleton Silk Mill from the north west, with the Caldon canal to the right. The stone ground floor is part of an older building which was converted into a silk factory in the late 18th or early ...
Cheddleton - Ashcombe Hall: sepia drawing
'View of Ashcombe Hall, Staffordshire.' Showing a large square Georgian mansion, with a low roof, situated in a park.'J. Buckler.'
Cheddleton - 'Rock' Chapel and School: sepia drawing
'Rock Chapel and School near Cheddleton,' [now Wetley Rocks.] Showing a one-story school building (1843) and the tower of a chapel and two bays of a nave to the right, (1833-4).'J. Buckler.'
Cheddleton - 'Westwood House' : steel engraving
'Westwood House, Seat of Captain Powis, near Leek,' showing a square Georgian house on a hill among trees. In the foreground there is a pool in a park.[In Cheddleton parish; not to be confused with Westwood ...