Glossop Heritage Trust

Local History Articles

This section of the web site is continuously under development, so there may be little information about a particular subject at any given point in time, but please check back as it is intended that the amount of information available will be added to.

Button image The Derivations for the name Glossop. Button image Melandra Roman Fort. Button image Glossop & the Monks of Basingwerk.
Button image Extract from an 1846 Derbyshire Directory. Button image Origins of Glossopdale Churches and Chapels. Button image The Howard Family, Barons of Glossop, and Glossop Hall.
Button image The Mills of Glossopdale. Button image Dinting and the Potters, a brief history. Button image Olive & Partington's Turnlee Mills.
Button image The Railways in Glossop. Button image The Glossop Turnpike Roads. Button image Harehills and Howardtown.
Button image Glossop Co-operative Society. Button image Howard Park, Wood's Baths and Wood's Hospital. Button image Station Road, Hadfield - Then and Now.
Button image Manor Park - The Grounds of Glossop Hall. Button image Glossopdale Schools. Button image Gnat Hole - a Woollen Mill in a Cotton Town.
Button image Old Glossop. Button image Scenes from Hadfield. Button image Partington Convalescent Home.
Button image Glossop, Hadfield & District Almanack, 1907. Button image Methodist Snippets. Button image Longdendale Historical & Descriptive Sketches, 1863.
Button image Developments in the Second Quarter of the 19th Century.

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