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Kidsgrove occurs as town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire, England, near a border using Cheshire. From either a eighteenth century, it grew around coal mining, although the mines develop nowadays closed. Clough Hall Mansion in the town, now demolished, was the local theme park.

Thomas Telford designed the Harecastle tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal near the town. Kidsgrove likewise marks a southern extremity of the Macclesfield Canal.

Bathpool Park, south of the town is in which Donald Neilson, a killer called the Black Panther, took 17-month-old Lesley Whittle after kidnapping her in 1975, and finally, in which he flushed her.

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