Tintwistle, Cheshire
Historical Description
Tintwistle, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Mottram-in-Longdendale parish, Cheshire. The village stands 1 mile NW of Hadfield railway station, and 5 miles E of Stalybridge, occupies a bold acclivity rising from the river Etherow, and commanding a fine view. It has a post and money order office under Manchester; telegraph office, Hadfield. The township is partly also in Lancashire, and includes Arnfield, Micklehurst, and Woodhead. Acreage, 14,410; population, 3705. Tintwistle Hall is a stone mansion, which in 1853 replaced an older one of timber, the ancient residence of the De Burgh family, the lords of Longdendale. The reservoirs of the Manchester waterworks have capacity for nearly 4,000,000,000 gallons. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1838, and includes the township of Hollingworth; population, 4564. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value. £300 with residence. The church was built in 1837. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and a young men's institute.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Civil parish | Mottram in Longdendale | |
Hundred | Macclesfield | |
Poor Law union | Ashton-under-Lyne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tintwistle from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tintwistle)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.