Ipstones

Ipstones is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Staffordshire.

Ipstones
Ipstones Location within Staffordshire
Population	1,488 (2011)
OS grid reference	SK0249
Shire county	Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stoke-on-Trent
Postcode district	ST10
Police	Staffordshire
Fire	Staffordshire
Ambulance	West Midlands

Ipstones (Staffordshire) Inclosure Act 1777
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for dividing and enclosing the several Commons and Waste Grounds, within the Manor and Parish of Ipstones, in the County of Stafford.
Citation	17 Geo. 3. c. 130
Dates
Royal assent	16 May 1777

Ipstones is part of the Staffordshire Moorlands district; within the boundaries of the civil parish are the hamlets Foxt, Consall Forge and Bottomhouse. Ipstones Edge, to the north of the village, rises to 1,250 feet (380 m) and gives views for many miles around.

Ipstones is not mentioned in the Domesday book and dates from around the 12th century. The majority of the houses and farms, barring modern development, are built from local sandstone. Two sections of the village are designated as Conservation Areas with several listed structures contained within them.

Ipstones was served by a railway station opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 15 June 1905, on its line between Leekbrook Junction and Waterhouses. The station was closed to passengers on 30 September 1935. The buildings have been demolished but heritage trains of the Churnet Valley Railway now use the line again and there have been proposals to restore mineral trains to Caldon Low.

Ipstones has three pubs, a butcher's, a corner shop, an agricultural supplies store, a church and a primary school.

See also

• Listed buildings in Ipstones

External links

Media related to Ipstones at Wikimedia Commons

• BBC article
• GENUKI(tm) page
• Church Website
• Ipstones Agricultural Show website