Hadfield, Derbyshire
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 Station Road - The main street in Hadfield |
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  Hadfield Hadfield shown within Derbyshire | |
| OS grid reference | SK021963 |
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| 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 town and civil parish in the High Peak borough of Derbyshire, England. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, which forms the border between Derbyshire and Greater Manchester. Hadfield lies on the western edge of the Peak District, and is close to Glossop, from which several local amenities and services are served.
Geography
Hadfield lies between Bottoms Reservoir and the Glossop Brook, on the southern side of the River Etherow valley, which is known as Longdendale. The parish lies between 120 m and 210 m above sea level. Hadfield is 12.5 miles (20.1 km) from Manchester.
History
Hadfield was part of the Manor of Glossop, and at the time of the Domesday survey belonged to William the Conqueror.[1] 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 whom 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. Gartside's re-equipped the mills with automatic looms from the United States and installed new engines and electric lighting.[2]
During the First World War (1914–18), the mill was taken over by the Greenfield mill company, but parts of the mill were used to produce munitions. After the war, the company declined. In 1940 the mill was occupied by Maconochie's Foodstuffs Ltd, which had been bombed out of its previous premises in London. By 1954, about half of the original building had been demolished, and more was to go. In 1976 the site was redeveloped and renamed as the Hadfield Trading Estate.[3]
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, which converted it to silk noil spinning. The mill closed in 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 but it closed in 1932. In 1940 it was reopened by Hadfield Worsted Mills Ltd for cloth manufacture.[3]
Governance
Hadfield is administered by High Peak Borough Council at the Town/District/Borough level of Government, and by Derbyshire County Council at County level.
Representation on Derbyshire County Council
Representation on High Peak Borough Council
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