ONECOTE, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
LEEK which is in the northern division of the hundred
of TOTMONSLOW, county of STAFFORD, 5 miles (E. by S.)
from Leek, containing 585 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and
diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £800
royal bounty, and £ 1400 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of the Vicar of Leek. The chapel is a
small stone structure. There are copper-mines at Mixen,
and small portions of copper and lead are found imbedded
among limestone in most of the hills in the neighbourhood.
Within the chapelry is a deep valley surrounded
by .rocks, called Narrowdale, in which the inhabitants,
during several months in the year, cannot
behold the sun.