MADELEY, a village, a township, and a parish in Newcastle-under-Lyne district, Stafford. The village stands adjacent to the Northwestern railway, 1¾ mile E of the meeting-point with Salop and Cheshire, and 4½ W by S of Newcastle-under-Lyne; and has a station on the railway, and a post office ‡ under Newcastle, Staffordshire.-The township contains also the hamlet of Little Madeley. Real property, £7,782; of which £400 are in mines. Pop. in 1851,1,423; in 1861,1,725. Houses, 350.—The parish contains also the township of Onnely, and comprises 5,734 acres. Real property, £8,730. Pop. in 1851,1,655; in 1861,1,940. Houses, 392. The property is divided among a few. Madeley House is a chief residence. The land is hilly and well wooded. Coal is worked, brick-making is carried on, and nails are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Valne, £266.* Patron, the Hon. Mrs.Offley. The church is ancient but good; and contains monuments of the Egertons and others. There are a chapel of ease, a Wesleyan chapel, a free school and alms houses with jointly £95 a year from endowment, and other charities £60.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))