Kidsgrove Urban District was an urban district in the

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

of Staffordshire. It was formed in 1894 with the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

es of Hardings Wood, Kidsgrove, Newchapel and

Talke Talke is a village in Staffordshire, England, northwest of Newcastle-under-Lyme and southwest of Kidsgrove. Population details taken at the 2011 census can be found under Kidsgrove. Etymology Its unusual name is derived from the even more ...

. It was abolished in 1974, by virtue of the Local Government Act 1972, when it was absorbed into the

Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England. It is named after the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the council is based, but includes the town of Kidsgrove and village ...

References

A Vision of Britain - Kidsgrove
Kidsgrove History of Staffordshire Local government in Staffordshire Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Urban districts of England {{Staffordshire-geo-stub