John Michael Ward (born 14 September 1948 at Sandon, Staffordshire) is a former English cricketer active from 1970 to 1975 who played for Derbyshire. He appeared in 49 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman, scoring 1,743 runs with a highest score of 104 and held 24 catches. [1]
Ward was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme School. [2]
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 128,264 in 2016, up from 123,800 in the 2011 Census.
Market Drayton is a market town and electoral ward in the north of Shropshire, England, close to the Cheshire and Staffordshire borders. It is on the River Tern, and was formerly known as "Drayton in Hales" and earlier simply as "Drayton".
Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the Cheshire border. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. It has a population of 26,276. Most of the town is in the Kidsgrove ward, whilst the western part is in Ravenscliffe.
The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England.
Keele is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. It is approximately three miles (5 km) west of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and is close to the village of Silverdale. Keele lies on the A53 road from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Market Drayton and Shrewsbury. The village is the location of Keele University and Keele Services, a motorway service area on the M6.
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a constituency in northern Staffordshire created in 1354 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Aaron Bell of the Conservative Party. It was the last to be co-represented by a member of the Conservative Party when it was dual-member, before the 1885 general election which followed the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 coupled with the Reform Act 1884. In 1919 the local MP, Josiah Wedgwood, shifted his allegiance from the Liberal Party — the Lloyd George Coalition Liberals allying with the Conservatives — to the Labour Party and the seat elected the Labour candidate who has stood at each election for the next hundred years, a total of 29 elections in succession. Labour came close to losing the seat in 1969, 1986, 2015 and 2017, and eventually lost the seat in 2019.
Chesterton is a former mining village in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England.
Newcastle usually refers to:
Clayton is a suburb and a ward in the south of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council elections are held every four years. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2018, 47 councillors have been elected from 21 wards. Prior to 2018 elections were held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time.
Elections to Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council were held on 2 May 2002. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2000 increasing the number of seats by four. The Labour Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.
John Ward, 1st Viscount Dudley and Ward, known as John Ward until 1740 and as the 6th Baron Ward from 1740 to 1763, was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.
Clayton Hall Academy is a mixed secondary school located in the Clayton area of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the English county of Staffordshire.
John Bowyer may refer to:
Trent Vale is a village located on the western outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent in England. It is bordered on the south by Hanford, and both villages are separated by the A500. To the west is Clayton, whilst the north is Newcastle-under-Lyme. The south east is Oakhill, while Penkhull is to the north east of the village. The appropriate ward on Stoke-on-Trent MBC is called 'Springfields and Trent Vale'. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 6,816.
St John Fisher Catholic College is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the English county of Staffordshire. The school is named after Saint John Fisher, a Roman Catholic bishop and theologian who was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation The school was originally named after the Blessed Thomas Maxfield and changed to St John Fisher in 1980.
Grace Elizabeth Ann Potts is an English cricketer who currently plays for Staffordshire, Central Sparks and Manchester Originals. She plays as a right-arm medium bowler.