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 The
name Biddulph means 'doing the diggings' and reflects the mining
traditions of the town since the earliest times. Bidolf is
recorded in the Domesday Book as "waste" though
a motte and bailey castle was later constructed on the modern Congleton
Road
in
Bailey's Wood (about three quarters of a mile from The Castle Inn).
John Wesley was a frequent visitor to this isolated moorland town but the history of Biddulph goes back to long before the days of Methodism.
After the Norman Conquest the manor of Biddulph was granted by William the Conqueror to Robert the Forester, an overlord of what was then the extensively forested area of Lyme. The Biddulph's a staunchly Catholic family took control of the area. John Biddulph fought under the Royal flag during the Civil War and was killed at the Battle of Hopton Heath. |
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