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Tintwistle

TINTWISTLE, a township, in the parish of Mottram-in-Longdendale, poor-law Union of Ashtonunder-Lyne, hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 13 miles (E. by S.) from Manchester; containing 2290 inhabitants. This township comprises 17,050 acres, and includes the chapelry of Woodhead, which see. The population are mostly employed in the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods, and in quarrying stone in the neighbourhood: Messrs. John and Robert-Hyde Buckley have a cotton-mill for spinning and weaving, employing 300 hands. The village is situated on an acclivity rising from the western bank of the river Etherow. Fairs for cattle are held on May 2nd and November 1st. This was anciently a borough, and had a court leet; it is now a member of the lordship of Mottram. Christ Church, in the township, was erected in 1837, at a cost, including a parsonage and school, of £3000; it is in the early English style, with a tower. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Trustees; income, £150. There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic Methodists.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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