Cheadle, Staffordshire

St Giles' Church is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. The Grade I listed Gothic Revival church was designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and built between 1841 and 1846 for the Earl of Shrewsbury. It is in Decorated style, and is highly decorated on the outside and the inside, and has a tall steeple. The interior is painted throughout, and is floored with patterned tiles. Almost all the furniture and fittings were designed by Pugin, including the piscina, sedilia, a recess for an Easter Sepulchre, the reredos, font, font cover, pulpit, and screen. The spire is 200 feet (61 m) high and the church by far the tallest building in the town.

Osborne House, formerly Cheadle Town Hall, is a former municipal building in Leek Road in Cheadle, Staffordshire, a town in England. The building retains the façade of the former town hall but has been extensively redeveloped for residential use behind the façade.

Painsley Catholic College is a Roman Catholic secondary school with academy status in Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. The name comes from Painsley Hall, Draycott in the Moors, from which the Painsley and Draycott Mission served the neighbouring areas and from which grew those parishes now connected with the college. It is also part of a multi-academy company made up of Painsley and its six feeder schools.

The Cheadle Academy (formerly Cheadle High School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in Cheadle, Staffordshire in the Midlands area of England. It has around 790 pupils ranging from Year 7 to 13. The Cheadle Academy has its own sixth form provision that opened in September 2017. The Cheadle Academy is a specialist arts school. It offers a broad curriculum base, offering students the chance to study a wide range of subjects. Students in Year 10 and Year 11 can choose from subjects such as Health and Social Care, BTEC Sport, Business Studies, ICT, Geography and History. The proportion of students achieving 9-5 grades in Maths was 67% and in English Language the proportion of students achieving 9-5 was 68%. In English Literature this was 98%. Overall the proportion of pupils who were entered for 5 or more GCSE, and achieved 5 or more 9-5 grades, was 61%. Similarly, the pass rate for Grade 5 or more 9-5 including English and Maths was 58%.

Tean Road Sports Ground is a cricket ground in Cheadle, Staffordshire. The ground is located south of the town centre along the Tean Road, which itself forms part of the A522 Road. It has played host to List A cricket matches, in addition to playing host to Staffordshire County Cricket Club in minor counties cricket.

Cheadle Rural District was a rural district in the administrative county of Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1974, covering an area in the north of the county centred on the small town of Cheadle.

The Moorlands Sixth Form College is a Sixth Form College located in Cheadle, a historic market town in Staffordshire, England. The college caters for years 12-13, where students can gain A-Level and AS-Level qualifications, with results above the national standards. The college is run as a partnership of 3 local high schools; Painsley Catholic College, The Cheadle Academy and Moorside High School, and acts as the sixth form for students of all partnership schools.

Cheadle railway station served the town of Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. It was the terminus of a branch line from Cresswell and opened in 1901.

The Cheadle Coalfield is a coalfield in the United Kingdom. Centred on the town of Cheadle, Staffordshire and its outlying villages it lies to the east of Stoke-on-Trent and the much larger North Staffordshire Coalfield. The area has been mined for many years, with documentary evidence from Croxden Abbey citing coal mining in the 13th century.Deep mining ceased in 1965 with the closure of Foxfield Colliery by the National Coal Board. Private adit mining and opencast mining ceased in 1994 with the exhaustion of economic reserves.

Freehay is a small village located 2 miles from the centre of Cheadle in Staffordshire, England. The village centre is at the main Freehay Bank (or Church Bank), properly known as School Lane. St Chad's C of E church is located here.(Designed by Gilbert Scott) Half a mile up the road from here near the crossroads is the 'Queens at Freehay' a very popular Pub-Restaurant and previously a small village shop, which ceased business in 2017. There is also a viewing platform to look out across Croxden Quarry. Turning right at the crossroads from the village centre the road continues to the other half of the village and then on towards Winnothdale. Despite having two quarries in the vicinity the village is very peaceful as there is no noise from the quarries and they are surrounded by trees. At one time, Freehay was a larger village with its own school and Vicar; however, it is now a small peaceful village, without a school and shares a Rector with the nearby town of Cheadle. Some of the former houses were demolished to make way for Freehay Quarry. The former school, next door to the church, has been converted into a large house and the former vicarage is now a privately owned house. The village hall is located on School Lane next door to St Chad's school house. It is owned by the people of Freehay and managed by a committee of volunteers.

Woodhead Hall is a country house at Cheadle in Staffordshire. It is a Grade II listed building.

Tean is a large village in Staffordshire, England. It is around 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Stoke-on-Trent. The River Tean runs through the village, heading east towards Uttoxeter. Population details for the 2011 census can be found under Checkley. The village is itself composed of two villages: Upper Tean and Lower Tean. It is part of the Checkley ward within the Staffordshire Moorlands district. The Heath House, a Gothic Revival mansion and estate, is located to the east of the village. The village also contains an historic tape mill (now converted into apartments / flats). There are a number of pubs & shops, a doctors' surgery, nurseries, a village hall (Greatwood Hall), three churches, and a small park. There is free car parking signposted off one end of the High Street (between the two pubs). Major employers in the area include Alton Towers, JCB, Toyota, and Fox's Biscuits.