Harriseahead

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Harriseahead
Harriseahead shown within Staffordshire
OS grid reference	SJ860559
District	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Newcastle, Staffs
Postcode district	ST7
Dialling code	01782
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands
European Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Staffordshire Moorlands
List of places: UK • England • Staffordshire

Coordinates: 53°06′01″N 2°12′34″W / 53.1003, -2.2093

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Links with Methodism

Hugh Bourne's original Chapel building is now a commercial shed.

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. ^[1] ^[2]. 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.