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MELLOR - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

MELLOR, a chapelry in the parish of Glossop, in the High Peak hundred, is two miles from Marple, six and a half from Glossop, eight from Chapel-en-le-Frith, seven from Stockport, and 14 from Manchester. The church, dedicated to St. James [Ed: this is (now) incorrect - it is St. Thomas], which is of stone, is erected on a commanding situation, a short distance from the village: the Rev. Matthew Freeman enjoys the curacy for life: the gift of the living is in the Thornton family.

Here is a small Sunday-school, belonging to the church, and Wesleyan and primitive methodist chapels. In a vault in the church-yard is a coffin, cut out of the solid stone; the lid of which is of the same material, and is covered with masonic characters cut in the stone: the person for whom this substantial and final requisite was made is still living, and personally superintended its construction. The extensive concern of T. R. and S. Waller, Cotton spinners and thread manufacturers, here, gives employment to a great number of hands. The population of the chapelry, in 1821, was 2,099, and at the last census (1831) it had sustained a diminution of 40 persons.

ROWARTH, about a mile from Mellor, is a hamlet in the same parish as that town, in Glossop dale; containing several manufactories in the cotton branch, from which the inhabitants of the hamlet derive their support.

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie ©1999]

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