Cobridge

Human settlement in England

City of Stoke-on-Trent

Staffordshire

Region

West Midlands

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSTOKE-ON-TRENTPostcode districtST1Dialling code01782PoliceStaffordshireFire Staffordshire Ambulance West Midlands

List of places: UK; England; Staffordshire

53°02′20″N 2°11′12″W / 53.038950°N 2.186665°W / 53.038950; -2.186665

Cobridge is an area of Stoke-on-Trent, in the City of Stoke-on-Trent district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Cobridge was marked on the 1775 Yates map as 'Cow Bridge'^[1] and was recorded in Ward records (1843) as Cobridge Gate.^[2]

Cobridge has a car dealer centre (Holdcroft Honda Cobridge) on Sneyd Street,^[3] a community centre^[4] and a C of E church called Christ Church on Emery Street^[5]^[6] which is Grade II listed.^[7]

Cobridge once had a railway station on the Potteries Loop Line.^[8]

There was once an old school house in Cobridge, at the bottom of Sneyd Street and demolished in 1897. A Victorian school once stood adjacent to Christ Church on the corner of Emery and Mawdesley Streets. The old Granville school was replaced by the new Forest Park school. St. Peter's Catholic school still exists in the area.^[9]

Cobridge was the location of the Athletic Ground, now the site of a sheltered housing and nursing home complex. Circa 1870, it had a population of 3,378 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.^[10]

The Headquarters of the Air Training Corps 388 (City of Stoke-on-Trent) Squadron are at the RFCA Centre, Martin Leake House, Waterloo Road.

References

^ Yates, William (1775). A map of the county of Stafford.
^ "Cobridge - Stoke-on-Trent Districts". Thepotteries.org. 28 January 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ Holdcroft Honda, Cobridge at Holdcroft Motors
^ "Map - Directions | Cobridge Community Centre | Community Centres, Stoke-On-Trent". Yell.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ A Church Near You. "Christ Church, Cobridge - Staffordshire | Diocese of Lichfield". Achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ "Christ Church, Cobridge:: OS grid SJ8748 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!". Geograph.org.uk. 27 July 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ Good Stuff IT Services (15 March 1993). "Christ Church - Stoke On Trent - Staffordshire - England". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ "Latest News and Information on Cobridge Railway Station". Eastgrinsteadliving.info. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ "Cobridge - Stoke-on-Trent Districts". Thepotteries.org. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ "History of Cobridge, in Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cobridge.

Cobridge Station at thepotteries.org
Images for SJ8748 at Geograph Britain and Ireland
Cobridge - 'the changing face of Cobridge' at thepotteries.org
Cobridge streets at thepotteries.org
Cobridge, Staffordshire at the FamilySearch Research Wiki
Christ Church, Cobridge at Hanley Team Ministry

City and unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent

Areas,
towns and wards

History

Parliamentary
constituencies

Current	Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent South
Historic	Burslem Hanley Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-upon-Trent

Religion

Tourism

Buildings	Listed buildings (Grade II*) Bottle ovens Burslem Market Hall Etruria Hall Ford Green Hall Old Town Hall, Burslem Trentham Mausoleum The Villas Wedgwood Institute Water World Winton Square (North Stafford Hotel)
Theatres	Mitchell Arts Centre Queen's Theatre Regent Theatre Stoke Rep Theatre Royal Victoria Hall
Museums and libraries	Burslem School of Art Chatterley Whitfield Etruria Industrial Museum Gladstone Pottery Museum Montagu C. Butler Library Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Spode Museum
Shopping	City Sentral Potteries Shopping Centre
Parks and countryside	Bagnall Road Wood Berryhill Fields Burslem Park Hanley Park Hartshill Park Hem Heath Woods Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival Trentham Estate Victoria Park, Tunstall Westport Lake Whitfield Valley
Sport and music venues	Bet365 Stadium Golden Torch Jollees Longton Cricket Club Ground Meir Heath Cricket Club Shelley's Laserdome The Sugarmill The Underground Vale Park

Mass media

Publishing	Cross Rhythms Pits n Pots The Oatcake The Sentinel
Radio	BBC Radio Stoke Cross Rhythms City Radio Greatest Hits Radio Staffordshire & Cheshire Signal 1 UCB UK

Education

Companies

Pottery	Aynsley China Beswick Pottery Burleigh Pottery Carlton Ware Churchill China Clayburn Pottery Dudson Emma Bridgewater Etruria Works Gray's Pottery James Sadler and Sons Ltd Lucideon J. & G. Meakin Midwinter Pottery Mintons Moorcroft Palissy Paragon China Portmeirion Pottery Royal Doulton Royal Winton Shelley Potteries Spode Steelite Wedgwood W H Grindley
Other	Armitage Shanks Bet365 Clay Records Goodwin Steel Castings Hanley Economic Building Society Shelton Bar SONS Records Titanic Brewery Twyford Bathrooms Wrights Pies

Sport

Association football teams	Abbey Hulton United Dresden United Eastwood Hanley Hanley Town Meir K.A. Norton United Port Vale Stoke City
Rugby union teams	Longton Stoke-on-Trent
Speedway teams	Stoke Potters Stoke Spitfires

Transport

Canals	Caldon Canal Trent and Mersey Canal
Public transport	D&G Bus First Potteries Stoke Streetcar
Rail	Longport railway station Longton railway station North Staffordshire Railway Stafford–Manchester line Stoke-on-Trent railway station Stoke railway works
Major roads	A34 A50 A52 A53 A500 Longton Interchange