Kidsgrove
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Template:GBmap Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire, England, near the border with Cheshire. From the eighteenth century, it grew around coal mining, although the mines have now closed. Clough Hall Mansion in the town, now demolished, was a local theme park.
Thomas Telford designed the Harecastle tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal near the town. Kidsgrove also marks the southern extremity of the Macclesfield Canal.
Kidsgrove is known nationally as the town where Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, took 17-year-old Lesley Whittle after kidnapping her in 1975, and ultimately, where he killed her.