Our Lady of Grace Parish is a Catholic Parish situated in the northern part of North Staffordshire, on the North-Western edge of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. We have three churches in our parish: English Martyrs’ in Biddulph; St Joseph’s in Goldenhill and St Patrick’s in Packmoor. A fourth church in the area, St John’s Kidsgrove, is no longer used as a Catholic Church. For more information on St John’s and its current use as a Coptic Orthodox Church, please click here.
The newly united Parish covers the whole area formerly covered by the three parishes. It includes Kidsgrove, Talke, Talke Pits, Butt Lane, Goldenhill, Sandyford, Packmoor, part of Chell, Newchapel, Harriseahead, Mow Cop (in Staffs), Biddulph, Biddulph Moor, Knypersley, Brindley Ford, and Gillow Heath, as well as lots of smaller villages and hamlets.
The official boundary of the parish is described in this way:
Starting in the south-west at the junction of the Diocesan Boundary with the “D Road” (A 500):
- East along the A500 ROAD to the Talke/Newcastle Road (A 34);
- South east along TALKE ROAD A34 to the footpath leading to Bradwell Wood near Newhouse Farm.
- East along this FOOTPATH passing through Bradwell Wood to the A500;
- North east along REGINALD MITCHELL WAY A527 to High Street A50;
- East and North-East along JAMES BRINDLEY WAY A527 and its continuation BIDDULPH ROAD to Peck Mill Lane;
- North-east along PECK MILL LANE to Bemersley Road;
- South-east along BEMERSLEY ROAD to Tongue Lane (neither side);
- North-east along TONGUE LANE to Sands Lane (both sides);
- South-east along SANDS LANE to Hill Top (both sides);
- South-East along HILL TOP to Hough Hill;
- North along HOUGH HILL, LADYMOOR LANE and North-East on COWALLMOOR LANE to Lask Edge and Lask Edge Road;
- North along LASK EDGE ROAD, TOP ROAD and then north-east on the descent along DINGLE LANE, BANDRIDGE LANE, ASKERBANK LANE and STATION LANE to Rushton Spencer and the Macclesfield Road (A523);
- North along the MACCLESFIELD ROAD (A 523) to the Diocesan Boundary, the River Dane;
- West and South along the DIOCESAN BOUNDARY to the junction with the ‘D’ Road A500.
