Hadfield, Derbyshire

Hadfield
Station Road - The main street in Hadfield.
Hadfield  Hadfield shown within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK021963
District	High Peak
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GLOSSOP
Postcode district	SK13
Dialling code	01457
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	High Peak
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Hadfield is a parish and small residential town in High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It lies very close to the River Etherow which forms the border between Derbyshire and Greater Manchester. The village is on the west side of the Peak District, and is a residential area/town next to Glossop with many local amenities and services being based in Glossop.

Geography

Hadfield lies between Bottoms Reservoir and the Glossop Brook, on the southern side of the River Etherow valley, known as Longdendale. Although classed as being in the East Midlands, Hadfield is at the northern extremity of the region so has more northern influences. The parish lies between 120 m and 210 m above sea level. Hadfield is close to Greater Manchester and falls within the sphere of influence of Manchester. Hadfield is 12.5 miles (20.1 km) from Manchester's city centre.

History

Hadfield was part of the Manor of Glossop, and at the time of the Domesday survey belonged to William the Conqueror. King Henry I granted the land to William Peveril. In 1157, King Henry II gave it to the Abbey of Basingwerk. In 1537, King Henry VIII gave it to the Earl of Shrewsbury from where it came to the Howard family (Dukes of Norfolk). While the Howards were responsible in the 1810s for the development of Glossop, it was the Sidebottom family who developed Hadfield. They bought the Waterside and Bridge Mill complex from John Turner and John Thornley in 1820.

For three generations they developed these mills, as a large spinning and weaving combine. They built their own branch railway to the mill, and in 1880 ran 293,000 spindles and 4800 looms. In 1896 the Sidebottoms went into liquidation. Bridge Mill was destroyed by fire in 1899, but Waterside Mill was bought by John Gartside and Co, of Ashton-under-Lyne. Gartsides re-equipped the mills with automatic looms from the United States and installed new engines and electric lighting.

During the first world war (1914–18) the mill was taken over by the Greenfield mill company, who described themselves as bleachers, but parts were used for munitions. After the war the company faded away. In 1940, the mill was occupied by Maconochie's Foodstuffs Ltd who had been bombed out of their previous premises in London. In 1954, about half of the original building had been demolished, more was to go. In 1976 the site was redeveloped and renamed as the Hadfield Trading Estate.

Station Mill was built in 1834 by Thomas and Edward Platt, members of a family who had farmed Longdendale for generations. The family owned this cotton mill for 68 years, before selling it in 1923 to E. Wilman & Sons, who changed it to silk noil spinning.The mill closed 1989. Hadfield Mills, was a corn mill from before 1819. In 1874, Thomas Rhodes and Sons converted the mill to the manufacture of cotton. There were 1000 workers there in 1873: it closed in 1932. In 1940 it was reopened by the Hadfield Worsted Mills Ltd for cloth manufacture.

Governance

Hadfield is administered by High Peak Borough Council, which is part of Derbyshire County Council.

Representation on Derbyshire County Council

Division Holder Etherow Cllr Dave Wilcox Representation on High Peak Borough Council Ward Holder Hadfield North Cllr MANN, Victoria Elizabeth Hadfield South Cllr SIDDALL, Edward Hadfield South Cllr MCKEOWN, Robert Joseph Hadfield does not have a parish council. The Member of Parliament for the High Peak constituency since 2010 has been Andrew Bingham MP, representing the Conservative Party. His majority in the 2010 General Election was 4,677 over the Labour candidate Caitlin Bisknell. Before the Election the seat had been held by Tom Levitt for Labour. Constituency Holder High Peak Andrew Bingham Transport The village is served by Hadfield railway station and Dinting on the electrified line. Hadfield is the terminus, all trains run through Dinting to Glossop and back through Dinting to Manchester Piccadilly. The railway, known as the Woodhead Line, used to run through to Penistone and Sheffield via the Woodhead Tunnel but passenger services were withdrawn in 1970. Freight trains ran until 1981 when Hadfield became the terminus. The trackbed to the east has been adopted as part of the Longdendale Trail footpath. The A57, which links Manchester to Sheffield via the Snake Pass, passes to the south of Hadfield, from Woolley Bridge to Dinting Vale. The A628 road, from Manchester to Barnsley and Sheffield over the Woodhead Pass, runs on the other side of the River Etherow through Hollingworth and Tintwistle. It is this road that the proposed Mottram–Tintwistle Bypass is to relieve. Hadfield Mills, Padfield Hadfield is within close proximity of the Greater Manchester county boundary, and some services are provided with this in mind. Though lying with Derbyshire and the East Midlands, some of Hadfield's transport facilities are managed by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, whilst Tameside and Glossop Acute Services, based in Tameside, Greater Manchester, is the NHS Trust which operates in the area. Media The television series The League of Gentlemen was filmed in Hadfield, which doubled as the fictional town of Royston Vasey. In the film spin-off from the original series, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, Hadfield appears as itself when the characters from the TV series enter into the real world through a portal below the church (the church featured is actually in Ireland). References External links Glossop Community Website