Froghall

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Froghall
Froghall shown within Staffordshire
Population	<100
OS grid reference	SK024472
District	Staffordshire Moorlands
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	ST10
Dialling code	01538
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
European Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Staffordshire Moorlands
List of places: UK • England • Staffordshire

Coordinates: 53°01′19″N 1°57′54″W / 53.022, -1.965

Froghall is a village situated approximately ten miles to the east of Stoke-on-Trent and two miles north of Cheadle in Staffordshire, England. Froghall sits in the Churnet Valley, A beautiful and relatively unspoilt part of Staffordshire. There are some excellent and challenging walks in the area, many of which encompass the area's historic development by the coal, ironstone,copper and limestone industries.

The main feature of the village is the historic copper factory of Thomas Bolton and sons, now called Bolton Copper. A lot of the factory now stands derelict (demolition in progress) but a substantial portion is still in use for the production of rotor bars and extruded section. The Thomas Bolton Copperworks at Froghall (and the closed works in the nearby village of Oakamoor) are famous for the world's first transatlantic telegraph cables, which were manufactured and rolled at the plants. During the Second World War the factories made wiring components for Spitfire fighter planes. The Copper works are the Staffordshire Moorlands' last link to the historic copper-mining industry that was centered on the nearby Manifold Valley and its famous Ecton Copper Mines.

[edit] Transport

Froghall was formerly served by Kingsley and Froghall railway station, on the North Staffordshire Railway's Churnet Valley Line from North Rode to Uttoxeter via Leek. Despite the gradual closure of this line in the 1960s and 1970s^[1], passenger trains returned to Froghall in the 1990s after preservation of the line by the Churnet Valley Railway. At the present time, Kingsley and Froghall is the terminus of the railway.

Froghall is the southern terminus of the Caldon Canal. The canal previously ran from Etruria to Uttoxeter (with the section from Froghall to Uttoxeter sometimes known as the Uttoxeter Canal), but does not now extend beyond Froghall.

The A52, which links Stoke-on-Trent with Derby, passes through Froghall.