Biddulph
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Biddulph is a town in Staffordshire, England, just north of Stoke-on-Trent, and has a population of about 25,000. It is an ex-mining town and is administered by Staffordshire Moorlands district council.
Biddulph is also home to the Biddulph Grange Gardens, run by the National Trust.
The name Biddulph means 'By the Diggings'.
Biddulph is a town steeped in history, within the bowl created by the ridges of Mow Cop and Biddulph Moor, there are ancient burial mounds; evidence of the civil war; the bubonic plague; Black Bull Colliery; tombs of crusader knights; a remarkable victorian garden at Biddulph Grange; an iron age fort; and the site of a meeting of part of the Methodist Movement with the Wesleys.
Biddulph is the home to Selectus Ltd, one time sole manufacturers of Velcro in the UK.