Hadfield

The Hadfield Library on Station Road near Railway Street is normally open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. They have free Internet access.

Alternatively, the Glossop Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Hayfield sub-district of the Hayfield Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
   
• The church was built in the late 1800s.
   
• St. Andrew's Church has a website with a schedule of forth-coming events.

• The Anglican parish register starts in the late 1800s. For entries prior to that, check Glossop.
   
• Hadfield had a Roman Catholic Chapel by 1871.
   
• Roger MAY has a photograph of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
   
• Hadfield had a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel by 1871.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Hayfield sub-district of the Hayfield Registration District.

"HADFIELD is a village, in the township of Hadfield and Dinting, in the parish of Glossop, about two miles west therefrom. About thirty years ago this township was strictly an agricultural district, with a small population; but at the last census it contained 1,270 inhabitants."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The parish is on the border of Yorkshire, 2 miles WNW of Glossop and on the south side of the River Etherow.

Peter WHATLEY has a photograph of Hadfield station on Geo-graph, taken in 1977.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• The transcription of the section for Hadfield from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Hadfield to another place.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of The Spinners Arms public house on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.

J. THOMAS also has a photograph of The Pear Tree public house on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.

Ben BROOKSBANK has a photograph of the Last Stop Inn on Geo-graph, taken in July, 1996. This was the former railway station.

Derbyshire Life has a good capsule history of Hadfield and Padfied.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK027951 (Lat/Lon: 53.452652, -1.960809), Hadfield which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• During World War I the Greenfield Mill produced munitions for the war effort.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the Hadfield War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012. The memorial is next to the old library building.
   
• Malc MacDONALD has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2004.

• For a photograph of the Hadfield War Memorial and the list of names on it, see the Carl's Camera website.

The parish name often appears as "Hatfield" in older records.

• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This place does not have a parish council.
   
• In 1875, the township of Hadfield was joined with the chapelry of Padfield to become a separate Civil Parish. Prior to that, they were parts of the parish of Glossop.
   
• District governance is provided by the High Peak Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Glossop petty session hearings held at the Town Hall on Thursdays.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became a member of the Glossop Poorlaw Union.

David LALLY has a photograph of St. Andrew's Junior School in Hadfield Road on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009.