Talk:Longdendale

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[edit] Longdendale UD

need to mention Longdendale UD. Morwen - Talk 16:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Turnpike

There's plenty more history to do with the turnpike which is worth digging up. So far I've found that:

  • The turnpike was authorised by the Manchester Roads Act 1731 (or possibly 1732), and the company who built and maintained the turnpike was called the Manchester and Saltersbrook Turnpike Trust. [1] has some good snippets of info, and mentions that the trust's archives are stored (and accessible) at Tameside's Local Studies & Archives Unit in Ashton-under-Lyne.
  • Presumably the road was built fairly promptly, though one site ([2]) seems to claim it was built in 1825. That might be referring to a different road though.
  • The modern A628 route probably follows the old turnpike route for many stretches, though is known to differ in places (e.g. [3]), for example parts of the old route may now be submerged. Tracing where the old and new routes coincide and differ would be interesting.
  • The turnpike through Longdendale seems to have finished on the county border at Salter's brook (Saltersbrook), and other turnpikes (plural it seems though I don't know how many, their routes or their destinations) took over from there.
  • Presumably there would have been a tollbooth at the top - did there use to be a building at the site, even one of the distinctive octagonal towers that are still around in places?
  • Other turnpikes of the era had a 'saltersbrook' as their destination, but that is a common name on old passable routes so they may well be talking about different salters brooks.[4]
  • There's an information board up at Salter's brook with loads of detail on it about the saltway and the turnpike; if I end up doing a walk over there some time I'll try and get a photo of it (or just scribble down the info).
  • I bet old OS maps would be informative, but they don't have them online so you'd have to pay for them.

--VinceBowdren 18:07, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

And this site [5] claims that the "Manchester to Barnsley" turnpike was built in 1728.

[edit] Wildlife

Bredbury mentions in passing that "By this time too, the wolves of Longdendale had been exterminated." - though doesn't say which of the articles sources this is from. --VinceBowdren 18:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia ?

Good re-work of the article - but is the reputation for supernatural phenonomena trivia? WhaleyTim 13:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

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