Description
Halmer End, a township in Audley parish, Staffordshire, 4 1/2 miles NW of Newcastle-under-Lyme. It has a station on the North Staffordshire railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newcastle-under-Lyme. It includes the village of Alsagers Bank, where there is a small church and a Wesleyan chapel. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. In and around the village is the richest coalfield of North Staffordshire. Iron is also worked.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
