Coordinates: 53°06′47″N 2°13′03″W / 53.112973°N 2.217582°W
| Mow Cop | |
 Mow Cop Castle |
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  Mow Cop
Mow Cop shown within Cheshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| Parish | Odd Rode |
| Kidsgrove | |
| District | Cheshire East |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | |
| Shire county | Cheshire |
| Staffordshire | |
| Region | North West |
| West Midlands | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STOKE-ON-TRENT |
| Postcode district | ST7 |
| Dialling code | 01782 |
| Police | Cheshire |
| Staffordshire | |
| Fire | Cheshire |
| Staffordshire | |
| Ambulance | North West |
| West Midlands | |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
| West Midlands | |
| UK Parliament | Congleton |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | |
| List of places: UK • England • Cheshire | |
Mow Cop is a village on a high isolated hill. The village straddles the Cheshire–Staffordshire border and is thus also divided between the North West and West Midlands regions of England.
The name is first recorded as "Mowel" around 1270 AD. It is believed to have come from either:
- Anglo-Saxon Mūga-hyll = "heap-hill", with copp = "head" added later
- The Common Celtic ancestor of Welsh moel (= hill), with Anglo-Saxon copp added later.
At its summit men had quarried stone to make into querns used for milling corn since the Iron Age; this trade ended in the Victorian period.
Mow Cop Castle is a folly of a ruined castle at the summit of the hill, built in 1754.
Mow Cop is noteworthy as the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement. Starting in 1800, Hugh Bourne from Stoke-on-Trent and William Clowes from Burslem began holding open-air prayer meetings. On 31 May, 1807 a large 14-hour camp meeting was held and as a result the Primitive Methodist Church was formed in 1810. These camp meetings became a regular feature at Mow Cop and camps were also held to celebrate the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the first camp.
Mow Cop was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on October 9, 1848.
Mow Cop features prominently in the 1973 novel Red Shift by Alan Garner.
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