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Chadderton
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Chadderton is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.[1][2] It lies along the course of the River Irk and the Rochdale Canal, on undulating land at the foothills of the Pennines, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Oldham, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Rochdale, and 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of the city of Manchester. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 33,001.

Historically a part of Lancashire, Chadderton during the Middle Ages was chiefly distinguished by its two ancient mansions, Foxdenton Hall and Chadderton Hall, and by the prestigious families who occupied them.[3] Chadderton's early history is marked by its status as a manorial township, with its own line of lords. It developed independently of its now larger neighbours, and was of importance both regionally and nationally by way of contributing six High Sheriffs of Lancashire, and a Governor of the Isle of Man. Chadderton was anciently governed by its own lords and overlords, who included the Asshetons, Chethams, Radcylffes, and Traffords, the latter of whom changed their surname to Chadderton.

Chadderton's urbanisation and expansion largely coincided with developments in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era. As the result of a late-19th century factory building boom, Chadderton was transformed from a rural township into a major mill town—one of several in its immediate region—and the second most populous urban district in the United Kingdom.[4][5][6] By the First World War, the success of the local cotton spinning sector had resulted in a densely populated landscape occupied by over 50 cotton mills.[4]

Although Chadderton's industries declined during the mid-20th century, the town has continued to grow as a result of suburbanisation and urban renewal. The legacy of Chadderton's industrial past is marked by its landscape of surviving red-brick cotton mills, now used as warehouses or distribution centres,[6] some of which are listed buildings because of their special architectural, historical and cultural significance.[7][8]

History

Toponymy

The name Chadderton derives from Caderton, which is believed to be a combination of the Brythonic word Cader or Cater (modern Welsh: Caer) indicating a hill fort, and the Old English suffix -ton meaning a settlement.[9][10][11] The University of Nottingham's Institute for Name-Studies has offered the similar suggestion that the name Chadderton means "farm or settlement at the hill called Cadeir".[12] This name is believed to date from the 7th century when Angles colonised the region following the Battle of Chester.[13] At what is now Chadderton, it is suggested these Anglian settlers "found a few Brythonic Celts already in possession, and from them borrowed the hill name Chadder", appending their word for settlement to the end.[14] Archaic spellings include Chaderthon, Chaderton, Chaterton, and Chatherton.[15] The first known written record of the name Chadderton was in a legal document relating to land tenture in around 1220.[10]

Early history

Chadderton Fold by the River Irk (pictured) was the ancient centre of the township of Chadderton, from which Dark Age and medieval relics have been discovered.

Toponymic evidence suggests that the ancient Britons once inhabited the area.[14] Remains of Roman roads have been discovered running through the town,[9][15] and the local road name Streetbridge suggests that the Romans once marched along it,[10] on a path which may have led to Blackstone Edge.[11] Relics found at a tumulus in Chadderton Fold date from the Early Middle Ages, likely dating from the early period of Anglo-Saxon England.[10][15] Angles settled in the area during the period of the Heptarchy, and it is from this time that Chadderton emerged as a manor of the hundred of Salford.

Unmentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, Chadderton does not appear in records until around 1220. A legal document states that Robert, Rector of Prestwich, gave land to Richard, son of Gilbert, in exchange for an annual fee of one silver penny.[10] Following the Norman conquest of England, Chadderton was made a constituent manor of the wider Royal Estate of Tottington, an extensive Fee held by Roger de Montbegon, the Norman overlord.[9][16] Taxation and governance continued on this basis throughout the Middle Ages, with the Barons Montbegon of Hornby Castle holding the estate, until it passed to the Barons Lacy of Clitheroe Castle, and then onto local families.[9] In about 1235, the sub-manor of Chadderton and Foxdenton passed from Richard de Trafford of Trafford Park, to Geoffrey de Trafford, who adopted the surname of Chadderton, thus founding the Chadderton family.[11] During the High Middle Ages pieces of land in Chadderton were granted to religious orders, including Cockersand Abbey and the Knights Hospitaller.[10]

The manorial system was strong in Chadderton, lending distinction to the township,[9] in a region which otherwise had weak local lordship.[17] Throughout the Middle Ages, the manor Chadderton constituted a township, centred on the hill by the banks of the River Irk, known as Chadderton Fold.[9] Chadderton Fold consisted of a cluster of cottages centred around a manor house, Chadderton Hall, linked with a water powered corn mill.[9] Chadderton Hall was owned and occupied by the de Chaddertons. In the 13th century Geoffrey de Chadderton, became the Lord of the Manor of Tottington.[18][6] The de Chaddertons' involvement in regional and national affairs gave prestige to what was otherwise an obscure and rural township. William Chaderton was Bishop of Chester from 1579 to 1595 and held distinguished academic posts, such as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity.[18][19] Laurence Chaderton was the first Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and among the first translators of the King James Version of the Bible.[18] In the mid-15th century Tottington was dissolved and there came a succession of distinguished families, each headed by an esquire with links to the monarchs of England. The Radclyffe, Assheton, and Horton families provided six High Sheriffs of Lancashire and a Governor of the Isle of Man.[18]

Apart from the dignitaries who lived in Chadderton's manor houses, the population of Chadderton during the Middle Ages comprised a small community of retainers, most of whom were involved in farming, with the growing and milling of grain and cereal being the main labour of the people, or else raising cattle, sheep, pigs and domestic fowl.[11] The income of the people was supplemented by the hand-loom spinning and weaving of wool in the domestic system.[9][11] This community was ravaged by an outbreak of the Black Death in 1646.[20]

Textiles and the Industrial Revolution

Further information: [[:Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution]]
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Following a building boom during the mid-19th century, Chadderton became a major mill town, dominated by distinctive rectangular multi-storey brick-built cotton mills—fifty-five at its peak in the 1910s.
Built in 1926, Elk mill (on the Royton-Chadderton boundary)[5] was one of the UK's largest and most modern cotton mills. It closed in 1998 and was demolished in 1999.

Before the mid-18th century, the region in and around Chadderton was dominated by dispersed agricultural settlements.[21] During this period the population of the township numbered less than 1,000 people, broadly consisting of farmers who were involved with pasture, but supplemented their incomes through working in cottage industries, particularly fustian and silk weaving.[11][22] A fulling mill at Chadderton by the River Irk was recorded during the Elizabethan era,[22] and during the Early Modern period the weavers of Chadderton had been using spinning wheels in makeshift weavers' cottages to produce woollens. Primitive early-18th century industrialisation in Chadderton "proceeded at a slow pace",[11] however, as both the demand for cotton goods increased and the technology of cotton-spinning machinery improved during the mid-18th century, the need for larger structures to house bigger, better and more efficient equipment became apparent. A water powered cotton mill was built at Chadderton's Stock Brook in 1776.[4][6][23] The damp climate below the South Pennines provided ideal conditions for textile production to be carried out without the thread drying and breaking, and newly developed 19th-century mechanisation optimised cotton spinning for industrial-scale manufacture of yarn and fabric for the global market. As the Industrial Revolution advanced, the socioeconomic conditions in the region contributed to Chadderton adopting cotton spinning in the factory system, which became the dominant source of employment in the locality.[22] The construction of multi-storey steam powered mills followed, which initiated a process of urbanisation and cultural transformation in the region; the population increasingly moved away from farming and domestic weaving, to mechanised production of cotton goods.[17]

During this early period of change, Chadderton's parliamentary representation was limited to two Members of Parliament for Lancashire. Nationally, the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 had resulted in periods of famine and unemployment for textile workers, and by the beginning of 1819 the pressure generated by poor economic conditions, coupled with the lack of suffrage in northern England, had enhanced the appeal of political Radicalism in the region.[24] The Manchester Patriotic Union, a group agitating for parliamentary reform, began to organise a mass public demonstration in Manchester to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. Organised preparations took place, and a spy reported that in neighbouring Thornham, "seven hundred men drilled [...] as well as any army regiment would".[25] A few days later, on 3 August, a royal proclamation forbidding the practice of drilling was posted in Manchester.[26] On 16 August 1819, Chadderton (like its neighbours) sent a contingent of its townsfolk to Manchester to join the mass political demonstration now known as the Peterloo Massacre (owing to the 15 deaths and 400–700 injuries which followed).[5][27] Chadderton's contingent was of particular note, in that two of the 15 deceased were from the area: John Ashton and Thomas Buckley of Cowhill and Baretrees respectively.[28]

Kent Mill was built in 1908 and was part of the Courtaulds Group. It closed in 1991, and was demolished in 1994.[6]

New markets in Europe and South America increased the demand for Britain's cheap cotton goods. Supplies of raw cotton were exported from plantations in the United States to Manchester.[29][30] From the markets in Manchester, mill owners from Chadderton and neighbouring towns bought their cotton to be processed into yarn and cloth. Supplies were cut during the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861–1865 as a result of the American Civil War, leading to the formation of the Chadderton Local Board of Health in 1873, whose purpose was to ensure social security and maintain hygiene and sanitation in the locality during the crisis.[31] Despite a brief economic depression, the urban growth of Chadderton accelerated after the famine. The profitability of factory based cotton spinning meant that the last remnants of Chadderton's plentiful cheap open land, used for farming since antiquity, vanished under distinctive rectangular multi-storey brick-built factories—thirty-five by 1891.[22] Chadderton's former villages and hamlets agglomerated as a mill town around these factories, and a network of newly created roads, canals and railways.[4][32][33][34] The Chadderton landscape was "dominated by mill chimneys, many with the mill name picked out in white brick".[35] Neighbouring Oldham (which by the 1870s had emerged of the largest and most productive mill town in the world)[21][36] began to encroach upon Chadderton's eastern boundary, giving Chadderton an "urban feel",[3] and forming a continuous urban cotton-spinning district with Royton, Lees and Shaw and Crompton—the Oldham parliamentary constituency—which at its peak was responsible for 13% of the world's cotton production.[37] These Victorian era developments shifted the commercial focus away from Chadderton Fold to the major arterial Middleton Road, by Chadderton's eastern boundary with Oldham.[6][33] Between 1778 and 1926, sixty cotton mills were constructed in Chadderton,[22] and by the beginning of the 20th century 6,000 people, a quarter of Chadderton's population, worked in these factories.[38] Industries ancillary to cotton spinning, such as engineering, coal mining, bleaching and dyeing became established during this period, meaning the rest of Chadderton's population were otherwise involved in the sector. Philip Stott was a Chadderton-born architect, civil engineer and surveyor of cotton mills. Stott's mills in Chadderton were some of the largest to be built in the United Kingdom, multiplying the town's industrial capacity and in turn increasing its population and productivity.[36]

A consequence of industry in Chadderton was its shift from a rural manor to a densely populated working class town, with extensive areas of terraced housing.

The boomtown of Chadderton reached its industrial zenith in the 1910s, with over fifty cotton mills within the town limits.[4] A social consequence of this industrial growth was a densely populated metropolitan landscape, home to an extensive and enlarged working class community living in an urban sprawl of low quality terraced houses.[39] However, Chadderton developed an abundance of civic institutions including public street lighting, Carnegie library, public swimming baths, and council with its own town hall. The development of the town meant that the district council made initial steps to petition the Crown for honorific borough status for Chadderton in the 1930s.[31][6] However, the Great Depression, and the First and Second World Wars each contributed to periods of economic decline in Chadderton. As imports of cheaper foreign yarns and textile goods increased during the mid-20th century, Chadderton's textile sector declined to a halt; cotton spinning reduced dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s, and by 1997 only two mills were operational.[4] In spite of efforts to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of its production, the last cotton was spun in the town in 1998.[1][5] Since this industrial depression, many of the redundant mills were demolished. Non-textile based industries continued on throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, particularly in the form of aircraft and chemical manufacture at plants in south Chadderton and Foxdenton respectively.[11]

Post-industrial history

During the second half of the 20th century, Chadderton experienced accelerated deindustrialisation along with economic decline.[4] Large areas of Victorian and Edwardian era terraced housing were identified as unsuited for modern needs, and were subsequently demolished.[40] However, the town's population continued to grow as a result of urban renewal and modern suburban housing developments.[11][41] During the 1970s and 1980s, redevelopment in the form of new shopping, health and leisure facilities contributed to the growth and renewal of Chadderton.[11][42] In 1990, the new Firwood Park, on the west side of Chadderton, was said to be the largest private housing estate in Europe.[42][43] Chadderton in the 21st century has continued to be a regional hub for the secondary sector of the economy through BAE Systems and Zetex Semiconductors, all based within the town limits.[1] Other major employers include The Stationery Office and Trinity Mirror.[1][11]

Governance

The coat of arms of the former Chadderton Urban District Council, granted by the College of Arms on 9 September 1955. The arms are emblematic of the history of Chadderton, incorporating in its design emblems from ancient manorial families, as well as symbols of industry.[44]

Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the early 12th century, the boundaries of Chadderton have varied from time to time.[15] Chadderton anciently formed part of the hundred of Salford for civil jurisdiction, but for manorial government, Chadderton was a constituent manor of the Fee of Tottington, whose overlords were the de Lacys, Barons of Clitheroe Castle.[16] The de Chaddertons, Lords of the Manor of Chadderton, were accustomed to pay tax to the overlords until the division of Tottington.[16][45] In 1507, two constables were appointed to uphold law and order in Chadderton.[46] Following a court case, in 1713 it was agreed that 20 acres (8 ha) of Hollinwood be within Chadderton with the rest belonging to Oldham.[2]

Following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Chadderton formed part of the Oldham Poor Law Union, an inter-parish unit established to provide social security.[2] Chadderton's first local authority was a local board of health established in 1873;[2] Chadderton Local Board of Health was a regulatory body responsible for standards of hygiene and sanitation in the township.[2] Following the Local Government Act 1894, the area of the local board became the Chadderton Urban District, a local government district within the administrative county of Lancashire.[2] The urban district council, comprising 18 members, would later be based out of Chadderton Town Hall, a purpose built municipal building opened in 1913.[47] In 1933, there were exchanges of land with the neighbouring Municipal Borough of Middleton and City of Manchester.[2]

By the 1930s, Chadderton was the second most populous urban district in the United Kingdom,[31] and initial steps were taken by the district council to obtain municipal borough status for Chadderton, but this was not achieved.[31] In 1926 and 1931, two Oldham Extension Bills for the County Borough of Oldham to amalgamate with Chadderton Urban District were rejected by the House of Lords, following objections from neighbouring councils.[31][48] A twinning arrangement was made in 1966 by Chadderton Urban District Council with Geesthacht, Germany.[49] Under the Local Government Act 1972, the Chadderton Urban District was abolished, and Chadderton has, since 1 April 1974, formed an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, a local government district of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.[2][6][10][50] Chadderton has two of the twenty wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham: Chadderton North and Chadderton South.[51]

In terms of parliamentary representation, Chadderton after the Reform Act of 1832 was represented as part of the Oldham parliamentary borough constituency, of which the first Members of Parliaments (MPs) were the radicals William Cobbett and John Fielden.[52] Winston Churchill was the MP between 1900 and 1906.[53] Constituency boundaries changed during the 20th century, and Chadderton has lain within the constituencies of Middleton and Prestwich (1918-1950) and Oldham West (1950-1997). Since 1997, Chadderton has lain within Oldham West and Royton. It is represented in the House of Commons by Michael Meacher, a member of the Labour Party.[54]

Geography

Further information: [[:Geography of Greater Manchester]]
Chadderton has a post-industrial landscape which forms a continuous urban area with Oldham (pictured on the horizon) and Manchester. This view is over Broadway in central Chadderton.

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Chadderton's modern commercial centre lies close to the boundary with Oldham; the expansion of Oldham in the mid-19th century caused further urbanisation along the eastern boundary of Chadderton, which spread outwards into the rest of the township.[3] Continued growth in the late-19th and early-20th centuries rise to a densely populated, industrial landscape of factories and rows of terraced housing, typical of mill towns in northern England.[11][15] There is a mixture of high-density urban areas, suburbs, and semi-rural locations in Chadderton, but overwhelmingly the land use in the town is urban. The soils of Chadderton are sand based, with subsoils of clay and gravel.[15]

Neighbouring towns, villages and places.

Chadderton's built environment is distinguished by its former textile factories: "The huge flat-topped brick mills with their square towers and their tall circular chimneys dwarf all other buildings."[57] Rows of early-20th century terraced housing built to house Chadderton's factory workers are a common type of housing stock throughout the town; narrow streets pass through these older housing areas.[11]

Chadderton is contiguous with other settlements on all sides, including a shared boundary with the city of Manchester to the southwest.[9] Localities within Chadderton include Baretrees, Broadgate, Busk, Butler Green, Chadderton Fold, Greengate, Firwood, Foxdenton, Healds Green, Holden Fold, Middleton Junction, Nimble Nook, and Whitegate.[5][6][15][58] Chadderton Fold, the former centrepoint of Chadderton, lies on the banks of the River Irk, 0.6 miles (1.0 km) north-northwest of Chadderton's modern commercial centre. Hollinwood was formerly a village and industrial district of Chadderton, but was incorporated into neighbouring Oldham following a court case in 1713.[15]

Demography

Further information: [[:Demography of Greater Manchester]]
Chadderton compared
2001 UK census Chadderton[59] Oldham (borough)[60] England
Total population 33,001 217,273 49,138,831
White 94.4% 86.1% 90.9%
Asian 3.8% 11.9% 4.6%
Black 0.5% 0.6% 2.3%

According to the Office for National Statistics, at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Chadderton (urban-core and sub-area) had a total resident population of 33,001.[61] The population density was 8,669 inhabitants per square mile (3,347/km2), with a 100 to 95.4 female-to-male ratio.[62] Of those over 16 years old, 27.2% were single (never married) 44.5% married, and 8.5% divorced.[63] Chadderton's 13,698 households included 28.8% one-person, 38.7% married couples living together, 8.9% were co-habiting couples, and 10.3% single parents with their children.[64] Of those aged 16–74, 35.6% had no academic qualifications.[65]

As of the 2001 UK census, 81.1% of Chadderton's residents reported themselves as being Christian, 3.2% Muslim, 0.5% Hindu, 0.1% Buddhist, and 0.1% Sikh. The census recorded 8.7% as having no religion, 0.1% had an alternative religion and 6.3% did not state their religion.[66]

Chadderton's population has been described as broadly working class with pockets of lower middle class communities, particularly in the northeast of the town, near the border with Royton.[67] Parts of the town are relatively affluent when compared against the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.[41]

Population growth in Chadderton since 1901
Year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1939 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001
Population 24,892 28,299 28,721 27,450 30,571 31,124 32,568 32,450 33,518 34,026 33,001
Urban District 1901-1971[68]  • Urban Subdivision 1981-2001[69][70][71]

Economy

BAE Systems have a manufacturing plant in south Chadderton. The plant occupies the former Avro aircraft factory which produced over 3,000 Avro Lancaster bombers during the Second World War.

Up until the 18th century, the inhabitants of Chadderton raised domestic farm animals, supplementing their incomes by the spinning and weaving wool in the domestic system. Primitive coal mining was established by the 17th century, and the factory system adopted in the late-18th century.[11] During the Victorian era, Chadderton's economy was heavily dependent on manufacturing industries, especially the spinning of cotton, but also the weaving of silk and production of hats.[3][4] By the 20th century the landscape was covered with over 50 cotton mills.[11] Industries ancillary to these sectors, including coal mining, brick making, mechanical engineering and bleaching and dyeing were present.[4] Chadderton developed an extensive coal mining sector, correlated to supporting the local cotton industry and the town's inhabitants. Coal was transported out of the township via the Rochdale Canal. The amount of coal was overestimated however, and production began to decline even before that of the local spinning industry; Chadderton's last coal mine closed in 1920.[72]

Since the deindustrialisation of the region in the mid-20th century, these industries have been replaced by newer sectors and industries,[4] although many of the civic developments that accompanied industrialisation remain in the form of public buildings; a town hall, public baths and library.[11] The few surviving cotton mills are now occupied by warehousing and distribution companies, or else used as space for light industry.[73]

British aircraft manufacturer Avro built a factory in south Chadderton in 1938–1939.[4][74] It was one of the largest employers in the area, producing a variety of aircraft models including Ansons, Manchesters and Bristol Blenheims.[74] During the Second World War, 3,050 Avro Lancaster bombers were built at the Chadderton factory—over 40% of the Royal Air Force's fleet.[4][75] After the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977, Avro became part of the nationalised British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) and has produced commercial aircraft for Boeing and Airbus.[76][77]

Chadderton has been described as a "relatively prosperous town [...] which makes it a popular residential area".[11] Chadderton Mall is a shopping precinct located in the town centre, and is one of Chadderton's main concentrations of retailing. It was constructed in 1974, and opened in 1975. It includes an ASDA supermarket and a variety of smaller shops.[78] The Stationery Office has a base in Chadderton, as does 3M. In 2008 3M was the centre of a high profile robbery of over 3,000 British passports.[79][80][81] Other major businesses include Costco and Shop Direct Group.[82] The Centre (formerly Elk Mill Retail Park),[83] is a retail park located at the start of the A627(M) motorway.[58]

Landmarks

Chadderton Town Hall was the seat of Chadderton Urban District Council. It is Chadderton's second town hall, the first having been the former Chadderton Lyceum building (demolished in 1975).[47] The current town hall, Chadderton's first purpose built municipal building, was designed by Taylor and Simister of Oldham, and was opened in 1913 by Herbert Wolstencroft JP, the then chairman of Chadderton Urban District Council.[47] The architectural style was intended to have "a broad and strong treatment of the English Renaissance".[47] It features "charming gardens and a beautifully renovated ballroom".[84] Since 2007 Chadderton Town Hall has housed the Oldham Register Office, the civil registration authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.[85][86] Chadderton Town Hall is a licensed venue for marriage ceremonies, and holds records of births, marriages and deaths which have taken place in what is now the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham from 1837 to present.[86]

The Grade II* listed building 18th century Foxdenton Hall, a former manor house and mansion. It has been fully restored, with public gardens.

Foxdenton Hall, in its present form, is a two-storey Georgian mansion and former manor house, with English garden wall bond exterior and own private gardens.[87] The original Foxdenton Hall was erected in the mid-15th century as a home for the Radclyffes, whom had acquired the title of joint Lords of the Manor with the Asshetons of Chadderton, through marriage. This Foxdenton Hall was demolished to make way for a second hall, built in 1620. The ground floor of the second hall now forms the basement of the present hall, built in 1700.[88] This building is described as "a dignified early Georgian house, particularly rare in this part of the country".[87] The Radclyffes moved out of Foxdenton Hall in the late-18th century, favouring properties they had purchased in Dorset, although they still maintained ownership of the hall.[88] Foxdenton Hall and the adjoining Foxdenton Park were leased to Chadderton Council by the Radclyffes in 1922, when they opened to the public. In 1960 the council became owners of the hall, but inherited it in a state of disrepair. Foxdenton Hall was restored in 1965 after much controversy.[89]

Chadderton War Memorial is located outside Chadderton Town Hall, and was originally erected "in honour of the men of Chadderton who made the supreme sacrifice and in grateful remembrance of all who served their county" during the First World War, but later, the Second World War.[90] It is a granite obelisk fronted by three steps. At the front on a short plinth stands a bronze figure of an ordinary soldier, holding a rifle in right hand.[90] It was designed by Taylor and Simister and sculpted by Albert Toft.[90] Chadderton War Memorial was commissioned by the Chadderton War Memorial Committee and unveiled on 8 October 1921 by Councillor Ernest Kempsey.[90]

Chadderton Hall Park is a public park by the River Irk in the north of Chadderton, spanning an area of over 6 hectares (15 acres),[91] in what were once the gardens of the manorial Chadderton Hall. At the end of the 19th century they were leased to Joseph Ball, who transformed the hall and grounds into a pleasure garden, complete with a boating lake and a menagerie.[92] The hall was demolished in 1939. The park is now owned by Oldham Council, the local authority, and was opened to the public in 1956. It was awarded Green Flag status in 2006.[91][93]

Transport

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For a short distance in south Chadderton, the Rochdale Canal and M60 motorway run parallel.

Public transport in Chadderton is co-ordinated by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), a county-wide public body with direct operational responsibilities such as supporting (and in some cases running) local bus services, and managing integrated ticketing in Greater Manchester. Major A roads link Chadderton with other settlements, including the A663 road. Opened by Wilfrid William Ashley, 1st Baron Mount Temple in 1925, the arterial A663, named Broadway, bisects Chadderton from north to south, and was "a major factor in the unification and modernisation of the town".[4] The A669 road, routed through Chadderton, connects Oldham with Middleton. At its eastern end is Chadderton's town centre.[58] The M62 motorway runs to the north of the area and is accessed via Broadway at junction 21 and junction 20 via the A627(M) motorway, which terminates at Chadderton's northeastern boundary with Royton.[58] The M60 motorway skirts the south of Chadderton, near Hollinwood.[11] The section of the M60 which is routed through Chadderton was opened in the autumn of 2000.[94]

There are no railway stations in Chadderton. The nearest are Mills Hill railway station and Oldham Werneth railway station, both part of the Oldham Loop Line, and each just outside the boundaries of Chadderton, in Middleton and Oldham respectively. The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway was routed through Chadderton, and Middleton Junction railway station was within the town limits. It was opened in 1842 for use by the Chadderton Goods Yard to transport fabic and coal in and out of the area, but closed in 1966 owing to the Beeching Axe.[95] Electric tramways to and from Middleton opened in 1902. Tram services ran along Middleton Road and terminated in Chadderton. The final tram ran in 1935.[95] The Oldham Loop Line is planned to close as a heavy rail line, and reopen in around 2012 as part of a new Manchester Metrolink light-rail line from Manchester Victoria to Rochdale via Oldham. South Chadderton Metrolink station will open as part of the conversion to Metrolink.[96][97]

Citibus was a Chadderton-based commercial bus operator serving Greater Manchester, launched in 1986. It competed with GMPTE until 1995 when it was bought-out by GM Buses North, what is now First Manchester.[98]

Education

Further information: [[:List of schools in Oldham]]

An old style grammar school at Healds Green in Chadderton was built and founded in 1789.[99] As the population of Chadderton grew during the 19th century, more schools were opened, each linked with a local church.[3] Mills Hill School began as a voluntary aided school belonging to the local Baptist church.[99] Further schoolrooms from this period were found at Cowhill Methodist Church and Washbrook Methodist Church, opened in 1855 and 1893 respectively.[100]

The Chadderton Grammar School was the first new style co-educational grammar school opened by Lancashire County Council. It was opened by David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford on 18 October 1930.[99][101] In 1959 it became The Girls' Grammar, when a separate school for boys was opened. The Girls' Grammar briefly became Mid-Chadderton School, what is now The Radclyffe School, and the boys' school part of North Chadderton School.[99][101] Radclyffe, North Chadderton and South Chadderton School are the town's three co-educational, non-denominational, comprehensive secondary schools.[11] North Chadderton School has an inbuilt sixth form college for 11–19 year-olds. The Radclyffe School, which has specialist Technology College status, was modernised in 2008 by way of a £30 million new school complex opened by Sir Alex Ferguson on 8 July 2008.[102] South Chadderton is the smallest of the three secondaries, and serves 700 pupils from Chadderton and north Manchester.[103] Almost every suburb of Chadderton is served by a primary school, some of which have religious affiliations.[104]

Religion

See also: List of churches in Greater Manchester
The Anglican Parish Church of St Mark was built between 1960 and 1963. It is one of several churches serving Chadderton and is a Grade II listed building.
Healds Green Methodist Church at Chadderton Fold was founded in 1865.

Chadderton had no medieval church of its own,[105] and until 1541, for ecclesiastical purposes, lay within the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham in the Diocese of Lichfield. The diocese was then divided, and Chadderton became part of the Diocese of Chester.[5] This in turn was divided in 1847, when the present Diocese of Manchester was created. For ritual baptisms, marriages and burials, the people of Chadderton, a Christian community, had to travel to churches that lay outside of the township's boundaries, including Oldham, St Mary's, Middleton, St Leonard's, and Prestwich, St Mary's. The route of some of the ancient paths to these churches is preserved in the modern layout of some of the town's roads.[106]

The New Parishes Act 1844 allowed for the creation of a parish for Chadderton, dedicated to St Matthew the Evangelist. Services were initially held in the stables of Chadderton Hall, and then in a temporary wooden structure opened in 1848.[107][108] The Church of St Matthew was a church building opened for the parish in 1857 by the then Bishop of Manchester, James Prince Lee.[107][108] A steeple was added in 1881.[107] Following the construction of this church, four followed. There are now several Anglican parishes and within them, daughter and mission churches serving the town.[105] The parish of St Matthew united with the neighbouring parish of St Luke, and the United Benefice of St Matthew with St Luke now lies within the Tandle Deanery of the Diocese of Manchester.[109] Also within this deanery is the Parish Church of St Mark, built in the early 1960s. It is a blue brick building with a graduated slate pitched roof, and a rectangular brick steeple with a high gabled roof.[110] It was granted Grade II listed building status in 1998.[110]

In addition to the Church of England, a variety of Reformed denominations have been practiced in Chadderton. Nonconformism was popular in Chadderton, and places of worship for Methodism, Baptist and Congregationalism were built during the 19th and 20th centuries.[105] Washbrook Methodist Church and School at Butler Green was built in 1868, but was demolished around 1970.[111]

Chadderton forms part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford. Roman Catholicism in Chadderton after the English Reformation was founded in 1878, following immigration to the region by Irish Catholics fleeing the Great Famine. The Parish of Corpus Christi was founded that year and a combined school and church was opened in 1904.[112] A further Catholic parish for Chadderton, dedicated to Saint Herbert, was created in 1916.[112][113] Its first mass was held on 1 July 1916, the day the Battle of the Somme commenced.[112]

Sports

Chadderton F.C. is an association football club formed in 1947 under the name Millbrow Football Club, later changing to North Chadderton Amateurs, before adopting its present name in 1957.[114] It plays in the North West Counties Football League First Division. Past players have included former England national football team captain David Platt, former Leeds United A.F.C. and Crystal Palace F.C. player John Pemberton and Northern Ireland national football team player Steve Jones.[114] Mark Owen of pop group Take That briefly played for the club.[114] Chaddertonians A.F.C. were formed in 1937 and currently play in the Lancashire Amateur League.[115] Chadderton Park F.C. is an amateur football club founded in 1977.[116]

The Art Nouveau Chadderton Baths was a public swimming facility opened in 1937.[11] Henry Taylor, the British Olympic freestyle swimming triple gold medallist and champion was an attendant at Chadderton Baths where many of his awards are displayed.[117][118] Chadderton Baths were closed indefinitely in 2006 after a structural survey found faults which could have put the public at risk.[119] Chadderton Sports Centre is built into the baths complex, and has a 50 station gymnasium and dance studio.[120] Chadderton Health and Wellbeing Centre is a proposed multi-purpose centre with a new swimming pool, dance studio, library, gym, meeting rooms, café and a community police hub.[121]

Public services

File:Chadderton Police Station.png
The original Chadderton Police Station on Victoria Street. Greater Manchester Police now use a newer building at Broadgate in southern Chadderton.
Chadderton Power Station opened in 1955 and was demolished in 1986.

Home Office policing in Chadderton is provided by the Greater Manchester Police. The force's "(Q) Division" have their headquarters for policing the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham at central Oldham. Greater Manchester Police have two stations in Chadderton: a Victorian building in central Chadderton, and a modern purpose-built station at Broadgate in southern Chadderton.[122][123] Statutory emergency fire and rescue service is provided by the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, whom have a fire station in Chadderton, on Broadway.[124]

There are no hospitals in Chadderton—the nearest are in the larger settlements of Oldham and Rochdale—but some local health care is provided by Chadderton Town and South Chadderton health centres which are commissioned by NHS Oldham, formerly known as Oldham Primary Care Trust. The North West Ambulance Service provides emergency patient transport in the area. Other forms of health care are provided for locally by several small specialist clinics and surgeries.

Waste management is co-ordinated by the local authority via the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority.[125] Locally produced inert waste for disposal is sent to landfill at the Beal Valley.[126] United Utilities manages Chadderton's drinking and waste water.[127] Water supplies are sourced from several reservoirs in the borough, including Dovestones and Chew.[128] A sewage treatment works is located in the southwest of Chadderton, at Foxdenton. It opened in 1898.[11]

A power station in Chadderton existed in as early as 1925, built for the County Borough of Oldham in the Slacks Valley.[129] It was coal fired and had six cooling towers.[129] This structure was demolished to make way for the new Chadderton "B" Power Station, opened in 1955 for the British Electricity Authority in anticipation that the region would experience increased demand for electricity.[130][131] It occupied a 95-acre (38 ha) site spanning the earlier power station in the Slacks Valley, and had three concrete hyperboloid cooling towers each with a 6-metre (20 ft) diameter.[129][132] Structural changes to the National Grid made the power station redundant in 1982.[133] It was sold by the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1984, and demolished in 1986.[129][132] Chadderton's Distribution Network Operator for electricity is United Utilities.[127]

Notable people

See also: List of people from Oldham

People from Chadderton are called Chaddertonians. Historically, Chadderton was chiefly distinguished by the presence of ruling families, including the Asshetons, Radclyffes, Hortons and Chaddertons. Within the extended Chadderton/Chaderton family, two ecclesiastically notable persons were William Chaderton (medieval academic and bishop) and Laurence Chaderton (one of the original translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible).[18] John Ashton of Cowhill and Thomas Buckley of Baretrees in Chadderton were two victims of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819.[4][15] Lydia Becker was a leader within Britain's 19th-century suffragette movement, born in Chadderton's Foxdenton Hall.[75] Chadderton-born scientist Geoff Tootill helped create the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine in 1948, the world's first wholly-electronic stored program computer.[134] Terry Hall was a pioneering ventriloquist and early children’s television entertainer born in Chadderton in 1926.[135][136] He was one of the first ventriloquists to perform with an animal (the "cowardly and bashful" Lenny the Lion) as his puppet, rather than a traditional child doll.[135][136] Other notable people from Chadderton include Woolly Wolstenholme, the Chadderton-born vocalist and keyboard player with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest,[137] David Platt, former captain of the England national football team,[138][139][140] and supermodel Karen Elson, who grew up in the town and attended North Chadderton School.[141][142][143]

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