Description:This map shows the estates in Audley and Wolstanton, belonging to the representatives of the late John Wedgwood Esquire.
John Wedgwood died 6 Feb 1839 and declared in his will: "I desire my body to be interred within my estate at Bignall End in a vaulted tombe at the summit of a certain field called Old Hill…..and my excetors do cause an obelisk or monument to be erected."
His monument still stands overlooking the land he once owned.
Featured on this map are Bignall End Farm, Butters Green, Bignall Hill Farm and Jamage Farm.
It shows the areas now known as Talke Pits, Red Street and Bignall End.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund