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GLOSSOP, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"GLOSSOP, a parish, market, and post town in the hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 8 miles N. of Chapel-en-le-Frith, and 200 from London. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway has a station here. The parish includes the townships of Charlesworth, Chisworth, Chunall, Chinley, Dinting, Hayfield, Ludworth, Mellor, New Mills, Padfield, Simondley, Whitfield, and several hamlets The inhabitants of the parish are for the most part employed in the cotton mills, calico printing works, paper mills, and iron foundries.

The townhall and market house form together a conspicuous building, situated in the centre of the town. There are commercial and savings banks. It is a polling-place for the county elections. The population, now 22,000, has more than doubled in the last half century, chiefly owing to the progress of manufacturing industry.

The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £350, with an excellent house. The parish church is situated in the more ancient part of the town, called Old Glossop. It is a modern structure built upon the site of the ancient one, with handsome tower and spire, and is dedicated to All Saints.

There are also five district churches, viz: at Mellor, New Mills, Hayfield, Charlesworth, and Whitfield, the livings of all which are perpetual curacies varying in value from £96 to £275. The parochial endowments produce about £280 per annum, £37 of which is for the school at Whitfield. The Wesleyans and Associated and Primitive Methodists have chapels, and there is a grammar school endowed by the Duke of Norfolk, also National schools.

In the neighbourhood are remains of a Roman camp measuring 200 yards by 112, and Melandra Castle. Glossop Hall is a seat of Lord E. F. Howard, who is lord of the manor. Saturday is market day, and fairs are held on the 6th May, and on the Wednesday following the 10th October, for the sale of live stock."

"BROWNSIDE, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peake, in the county of Derby."

"CHISWORTH, a township in the parish of Glossop, in the hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles S. W. of Glossop. The Wesleyans have a chapel. There is a colliery in the neighbourhood and a cotton-spinning factory. The feast is held on the first Sunday in August."

"CHUNALL, a township in the parish of Glossop, in the hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 2 miles S. of Glossop, on the Hayfield road. Here are woollen, candlewick, and paper factories."

"CROWDEN, a hamlet in the parish of Glossop, county Derby. It is a station on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway."

"DINTING, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 9 miles N.W. of Chapel-le-Frith. It is a station on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway. It takes its name from Dinting, a tributary of the Etherow, and has some calico printing works."

"LUDWORTH, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 5 miles S.W. of Glossop, and 8 N.W. of Chapel-le-Frith. It is situated near the confluence of the rivers Coyt and Etherow. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in mining operations and in agriculture. Here are chapels belonging to Wesleyans and Independents."

"PADFIELD, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 1½ mile N.W. of Glossop, and 9 miles N. by W. of Chapel-en-le-Frith. It is situated on the Manchester and Sheffield railway. There are paper mills, cloth, thread, and cotton-yarn works, which together employ the chief portion of the inhabitants."

"SIMMONDLEY, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 8 miles N.W. of Chapel-en-le-Frith."

"WHITFIELD, a township and ecclesiastical district in the parish of Glossop, county Derby, 9 miles N. of Chapel-en-le-Frith, 13 from Manchester, and 1 mile S. of Glossop. It is a rapidly increasing township, containing in 1861 5,679 inhabitants, many of whom were employed in the cotton and paper mills. The ecclesiastical district was constituted in 1844 under Sir R. Peel's Act, and has a population of 13,040. The church is dedicated to St. James. A fair is held on the 6th May for cattle."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]