Meerbrook in 1872

MEERBROOK, a chapelry in Leek parish, Stafford; on the river Churnet, under the Roaches, 3 miles N by E of Leek railway station, and 3 S of the boundary with Cheshire. It was constituted in 1859; and its post-town is Leek, under Stoke-on-Trent. Rated property, £4,785. Pop., 553. Houses, 111. The property is much subdivided.

The Churnet's valley here, for a length of about 2 miles, is flanked by stupendous mural masses of rock, and strewn with their fallen fragments. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value £120. Patron, the Vicar of Leek. The church has a tower, and is good. There are an endowed school with £19 a-year, and charities £15. 
 

[Description(s) from The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]