Talke

Talke
Talke
	Talke Location within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ824533
District	Newcastle-under-Lyme;
Shire county	Staffordshire;
Region	West Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	STOKE-ON-TRENT
Postcode district	ST7
Dialling code	01782
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Stoke-on-Trent North;

Talke is a village in Staffordshire, England, 4 miles northwest of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 1.5 miles southwest of Kidsgrove. Population details taken at the 2011 census can be found under Kidsgrove.

Etymology

Its unusual name is derived from the even more unusual "Talk o' th' Hill" which means 'bush on top of the hill'.[1] Talke is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Talc in 1086.

History

Talke was made a civil parish in 1932, being transferred from the disbanded Audley Urban District to Kidsgrove Urban District[2] which subsequently became part of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Talke and Talke Pits were formerly mining sites, which is why there are road names such as Coal Pit Hill. Nowadays Talke and Talke Pits are the poor forgotten areas of Newcastle under Lyme as the council seem to think spending more on civic offices is value for money

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.[3]
Ada Nield Chew (1870 – 1945) Suffragist and labour organiser.[4][5]
Margaret O'Flynn (1920–2014), gynaecologist and pioneer of contraception services for women.

References

"Literary Heritage - Talke". Shropshire County Council. Archived from the original on 29 December 2006. Retrieved 14 January 2007.
"Unit history of Talke". A Vision of Britain. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2007.
Ritchie, Sebastian. "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010.
"Ada Nield Chew". Nantwich Museum. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
"Chew, Ada Nield (1870–1945), labour organizer and suffragist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39080. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

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[1] "Literary Heritage - Talke". Shropshire County Council. Archived from the original on 29 December 2006. Retrieved 14 January 2007.

[2] "Unit history of Talke". A Vision of Britain. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2007.

[3] Ritchie, Sebastian. "Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895–1937)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Retrieved: 21 August 2010.

[4] "Ada Nield Chew". Nantwich Museum. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

[5] "Chew, Ada Nield (1870–1945), labour organizer and suffragist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39080. Retrieved 27 December 2020.