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Greater Hollingworth was owned by the senior branch living at Hollingworth Hall. Little Hollingworth was inherited by a younger brother who lived at Old Mottram Hall; he married the heiress to Matley Hall. A younger sister held a share of Thorncliffe Manor, also called Little Hollingworth manor, and was at Thorncliffe Hall in 1359. [19]
In the valley are the villages of Broadbottom, Hattersley, Hollingworth and Mottram in Longdendale. These villages and the surrounding countryside contain 56 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Edwin Hugh Shellard (usually known as E. H. Shellard) was an English architect who worked from an office in Manchester, and who flourished between 1844 and 1864. [1] Most of his output was in the design of churches in Northwest England, and he was successful in gaining at least 13 contracts for Commissioners' churches. [2]
Mottram Old Hall is a Grade-II-listed [1] two-storey country house standing in a 6-hectare (15-acre) triangular park between Coach Lane and Old Hall Lane in Mottram in Longdendale, Greater Manchester, England. The house was built in about 1825 in ashlar with a slate roof. Previously known as Ivydene, it incorporates a large rear wing built in ...
Thornfield Hall is a location in the 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It is the home of the male romantic lead, Edward Fairfax Rochester , where much of the action takes place. Brontë uses the depiction of Thornfield in a manner consistent with the gothic tone of the novel as a whole.
Hollingworth before 1816 : Dinting Vale Print Works: Joseph Lyne 1825 Edmund Potter: Dinting Vale [14] 1966 : Dinting Mill Logwood: Wagstaff Brothers : Glossop Brook 1804–5 : Notes: Passed to Potters, lower floor dye extraction, upper floors Day School [5] Gnat Hole (wool) John Robinson Gnat Hole Brook 1790 : 94: Notes: [15] Hadfield Lodge ...
In 1939 the Thorncliffe works came under the control of the Admiralty. A new workshop was constructed at Warren Lane, a short distance away from the Thorncliffe works, which was used to build army vehicles and became the largest manufacturer of Churchill tanks for the war effort. One of the tanks used to stand at the side of the road near the ...
Mottram in Longdendale or Mottram is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England.It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Hadfield and 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Hyde.It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Greater Manchester in 1974.