The village existed by 1670, and is shown in Robert Plot's map of Staffordshire dated 1682.

The Goldenhill Colliery, in Colclough Lane, excavating coal and ironstone, was owned by Robert Williamson in the mid 19th century.

[1][2] The Potteries Waterworks Company, formed in 1847, supplied water to Goldenhill and Kidsgrove by pumping water from a steam pumping plant in Tunstall, built in 1854, to a new reservoir on the higher ground at Goldenhill.

[6] The Anglican Church of St John the Evangelist, on High Street, was built in 1841 in Romanesque style.

There was originally a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built on High Street in 1822; it was replaced in 1868.