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HARECASTLE, a place on the NW border of Staffordshire; near the Kidsgrove Junction station of the Crewe, Stoke, and Uttoxeter railway, 4 miles N of Newcastle-under-Lyne. The Grand Trunk or Trent and Mersey canal begins here; and a tunnel of the railway, 1,888 yards long, is in the neighbourhood.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Staffordshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Harecastle |
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