A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HARTSHEAD, a parochial division and a sub-district in Ashton-under-Lyne parish and district, Lancashire. The division lies on the verge of the county, the river Tame, and three railways, in the eastern vicinity of Ashton-under-Lyne; and it contains the hamlets of Mossley, Heyrod, Hurst, Hazlehurst, Stanrick-hill and Luzley, and Ridgehill and Lanes, the villages of Hartshead, Broad carr, Mossley, Mossley Brow, Scout, Luzley, Blackrock, Heyrod, Ridgehill, Hazlehurst, Higher Hurst, Hurst Nook, and Hurst Brook, the chapelry of Hurst, the infantry and cavalry barracks of Higher Hurst, and part of the town of Stalybridge. Acres 3, 113. Real property, £60, 022; of which £5, 450 are in mines, £93 in quarries, and £176 in gas works. Pop. in 1851, 15, 697; in 1861, 19, 245. Houses, 3, 777. Pop., exclusive of the part in Stalybridge, in 1851, 9, 323; in 1861, 12, 454. Houses, 2, 443. The increase of pop. arose from the erection of cotton mills and other extensive works. The barracks in Higher Hurst were erected in 1843, at a cost of £42, 500. A church and a dissenting chapel are in Hurst chapelry; and two churches and two dissenting chapels are in the Hartshead part of Stalybridge.—The sub-district is conterminate with the division.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parochial division and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Hartshead CP Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Hartshead |
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