Official Name: | Red Street |
Country: | England |
Os Grid Reference: | SJ827512 |
Map Alt: | Red Street is in the northwest of Staffordshire. |
Postcode Area: | ST |
Postcode District: | ST5 7 |
Dial Code: | 01782 |
Shire District: | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
Shire County: | Staffordshire |
Region: | West Midlands |
Constituency Westminster: | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
Post Town: | Newcastle |
Coordinates: | 53.055°N -2.2529°W |
Red Street is a small, semi-rural village in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire north west of Stoke-on-Trent, east of the neighbouring village of Audley and 1 mile (1.7 km) north of Chesterton.
Local amenities include a pub, community centre, butchers shop, church and primary school.
Red Street is home to a large stone monument on the summit of Bignall Hill, which is dedicated to John Wedgwood (1760-1839). Wedgwood's monument was initially an obelisk erected in 1850. Following storm damage in 1976 it was reduced to a quarter of its original size, although the base is still substantial. The monument is a Grade II listed building. The monument is today reachable by footpaths off Deans Lane, and is the highest point in the area. It affords sweeping 360-degree views: south to the city of Stoke-on-Trent; north across the Cheshire Plains to Jodrell Bank; east to Mow Cop Castle and the Peak District; and west to the mountains of North Wales and Snowdonia.
The village has its own football club Redstreet FC.