Hayfield

The Hayfield Library on Kinder Road near Vicarage Lane is normally open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. They have free Internet access.

The parish church purchased an additional burial ground of one acre and consecrated it in 1862.

William BOADEN has a photograph of Hayfield Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.

• 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 Matthew.
   
• The church was built in 1336.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1818.
   
• The church seats 850.
   
• The church is located, naturally enough, on Church Street.
   
• Alan FLEMING has a photograph of the church on Geograph taken in March, 2004.
   
• And Stephen McKAY has another shot of the church on Geograph taken in February, 2017.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1622.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Glossop.
   
• Saint John's Methodist church was built in 1782.
   
• Bill BOADEN has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.

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

"HAYFIELD, an independent chapelry, generally included in the parish of Glossop, is four miles S. from Glossop, and about the same distance N. from Chapel-en-le-Frith. It is a populous manufacturing district, having several large cotton spinning factories, and one for woollen goods. The church is a handsome modern edifice, rebuilt by the inhabitants in 1818, and the interior is much admired for its neatness. The living is a perpetual curacy, and the resident freeholders have the privilege of nominating the minister."

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

The A624 bypass runs through the centre of the village. There is frequent bus service to Glossop.

The parish has its own Website with more information.

Kenneth ALLEN has a photograph of the Village Hall near the village centre on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Hayfield entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

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

• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of the Royal Hotel on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2017. Note the War Memorial cross on the left side of the photograph.
   
• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Glossop, transcribed by Barbarann AYARS, includes a portion on Hayfield.
   
• We have an extract in a text file from The Manchester Guardian Jul 31 1876, pg 8 on a local sports event.
   
• Flooding has always been a problem in the parish. in August, 1799, the bridge was washed away, and in 1809 a number of buildings; again, on the 16th June, 1858, the torrent tore up the mill weir and carried away the backs of four houses abutting on the stream.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK055876 (Lat/Lon: 53.385379, -1.919085), Hayfield 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.

• Kenneth ALLEN has a photograph of the War Memorial by the church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.
   
• Martin DAWES has a photograph of the War Memorial in front of the Royal Hotel on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   
• William BOADEN also has a photograph of the War Memorial in front of the Royal Hotel on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• Dave DUNFORD has a photograph of a Liberator bomber wreck on Mill Hill on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2005.

There are four Commonwealth War Graves in St. Matthew's churchyard from World War I:

1. John GEE, priv., 6th Btn. Cheshire Regt., age 20, died 14 Nov. 1916. Son of Thomas Laurence GEE and Eva Vivienne GEE, of The Hut, Hayfield.
2. J. N. HANDFORD, priv., age 39, 2nd/6th Btn. Sherwood Foresters, died 6 June 1921. Husband of Hannah HANDFORD.
3. John Thomas PORRITT, priv., 2nd/4th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, age 38, died 5 Apr. 1919. Son of Ralph and Martha Hannah PORRITT.
4. Edward WOGAN, srgt., 72nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery, age 25, died 11 Sept. 1918. Son of Annie RANGELEY (formerly WOGAN).

The Derby Mercury is a good newspaper source for Obituaries. Use the Newspaper Archives to search, but often it is more interesting to read the copies on microfilm at the Derby County Library. It gives you a full flavor of the times.

Joy HUNGERFORD has this extract from the Derby Mercury of Wednesday April 29 1835: DEATHES: "On Sunday week, at Hayfield, Aaron ASHTON, aged 104. The deceased was born in a cottage on the estate of Aspershaw, the residence of G W. NEWTON, Esq, near Hayfield, in this county; his father, Moses ASHTON, being farmer's servant or shepherd to G. BOWER, Esq, the great-grandfather of the present owner of the estate. He perfectly recollected going to Manchester with his father in 1745 to see the rebel army. At the age of twenty, he enlisted and was a soldier for 28 years and at the famous battle of Bunker's Hill, Aaron received a wound from the same shot which wounded Major SHUTTLEWORTH of Hathersage."

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Glossop parish in Nottingham county. It was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Hayfield Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT available to do family history searches for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the High Peak Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chapel-en-le-Frith petty session hearings once each month.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became the center of the Hayfield Poorlaw Union.