Talk:Mow Cop

Assessment Report

1. Article needs to be massively expanded using Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements as a guide.
2. It should make use of sections, using Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements as a guide.
3. Photos need to be added.
4. References and Citations are crucial for wikipedia, and so these must be added as the article is expanded. Make sure that as many as possible are "in-line" citations.(See WP:References, WP:V, and WP:CITE for guidance.)

Peter I. Vardy 10:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Mow Cop Residents Association

Please report crime and anti social behaviour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.81.234 (talk) 00:58, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Not on Wikipedia.Parkwells (talk) 00:42, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Mow Cop's County

Mow Cop is unusual in so far as it straddles the border between Cheshire and Staffordshire. So, it is quite appropriate to include Stubs, etc for both counties in this village's entry. It makes the village notable, for this reason. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ddstretch (talk • contribs) 16:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC).

• Yes, the craggs the castle sits on and the road from Astbury in Congleton form much of the border. Much of the village sits in Staffordshire and a lot on the Cheshire side as well.

The Staffordshire side comes under the jurisdiction of Newcastle-under-Lyme with Kidsgrove and the Cheshire side formerly under Congleton district, now Cheshire East. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kentynet (talk • contribs) 14:00, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Notable Residents

• Jack Simcock, artist, born 6 June 1929; died 13 May 2012
• Charles Machin, former Port Vale Football Club Director
• Alan Jones, former Port Vale Football Club Director

That's fine, but all need inline citations to Reliable Sources (RS) unless they already have Wikipedia articles that attest to their birth or residence in the town.Parkwells (talk) 00:42, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Querns for corn

The article currently says, "At the village's summit, men once quarried stone to make into querns, used since the Iron Age for milling corn; this trade ended during the Victorian period." I'll confess I simply stumbled upon this article and know nothing about this place or the practice described, but considering that, to my knowledge, corn is a New World grain, I highly doubt it was being milled in Iron Age Britain, so there is something wrong here. Brrgdw (talk) 05:36, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

The word "corn" in British English can mean "wheat" and other grains (see, e.g. [1]). I'll change it. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:19, 7 October 2024 (UTC)