{"id":19672,"date":"2024-09-03T21:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=19672"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:10:26","slug":"heritage-walk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=19672","title":{"rendered":"Heritage walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This page documents the Heritage Walk<\/strong> led by the Webmaster, Tim Boddington, as part of several of the annual <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bollingtonwalkingfestival.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bollington Walking Festivals<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">. Participants who would like to know more than the script spoken during the walk are welcome to follow-up on this page which contains links to other history pages containing further information. Tim Boddington has now retired from these walks, but others are taking over! See the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bollingtonwalkingfestival.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bollington Walking Festival<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> website for the programme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/clarence_chimney_011-17a-300x236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7767 size-medium\" title=\"Clarence mill c.1914\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/clarence_chimney_011-17a-300x236-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Clarence mill c.1914\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\"><\/a>Origin: Macclesfield Forest, farming, corn mills from 14thC; cotton mills on river from 1784;<\/li>\n<li>Industries: Farming, Cotton, Stone quarrying, Coal mining; also corn milling, paper making, silk spinning; today paper coating (two mills), mixed commerce incl. IT and pharma support;<\/li>\n<li>Mills: <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=7893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bollington corn mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (14thC), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainow mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (various from &lt;16thC), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oak Bank<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1784), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher Mills<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (c.1789, 1830s), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterhouse<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1791), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lower Mills<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1792), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ingersley Clough<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1800), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defiance<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1800), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lowerhouse<\/a> (1818), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence<\/a> (1831), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Owlhurst<\/a> (&lt;1836), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelphi<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1856), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beehive<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (c.1862).<\/li>\n<li>There were\/are various other mills, 15 in total on the rivers from Rainow to Bollington.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macclesfield Canal<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> from 1831, then mills away from river; Clarence, Adelphi, Beehive and Bobbin mill.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Railway<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> from 1869 to 1971; Now the <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=1372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middlewood Way<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (walking, cycling, horse riding).<\/li>\n<li>Population: 1811: 1500, 1851: 4600, 2015: c.7300, now over 8000; Cotton: very local immigration, mostly unskilled; Bleaching &amp; Dyeing: skilled immigration from Lancashire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Foot of <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beeston Brow<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Loft cottages<\/li>\n<li>Arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swindells<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> from Disley looking for a mill \u2013 Cat Ladder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Originally the main street; 16 \u2013 22 listed, 18thC<\/li>\n<li>Built by Sheldons (builders), Bradleys (slaters) and Beards (joiners)<\/li>\n<li>Sheldon Place built early 19thC by <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=6075&amp;pers=848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Sheldon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defiance Brow<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defiance mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, 1800; <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobbin mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; setts and conservation of the never was;<\/li>\n<li>Original route of street through <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oak Bank mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britannia Inn<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamson Drive<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oak Bank mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, 1784 by <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Antrobus<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; burnt down more than once; cloth printing; much altered over past century, demolished late 1990s;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=9369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joseph Hamson&#8217;s house<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, 1806 plumber &amp; decorator; <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bann\u2019s shop<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Turner Square<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turner\u2019s Arms<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Turner<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; abduction of daughter (<a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shrigley Abduction<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">)<\/li>\n<li>Restored building controlled by Bollington Initiative Trust (BIT); let to Simplicity Granite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Church Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vine Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, Union Street, Hope Street (The Square); clearance 1960s;<\/li>\n<li>Archway \u2013 10 Church Street was <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grapes Inn<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, closed 1909;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St John\u2019s School<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> on corner of Vine Street;<\/li>\n<li>Bungalows with added floors; note brickwork.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapel Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silver Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gold Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">;<\/li>\n<li>Catholic graveyard; <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chapel (demolished)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; Catholic school now houses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turner Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whittaker\u2019s bag mill<\/a> (corn sacks etc.); later Bannister\u2019s joinery workshop; burnt out 1990s; now apartments; listed II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St John\u2019s Church<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Commissioner&#8217;s church built 1834; closed 2003; conversion to apartments; when? Listed II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lowther Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>School endowed by Lady Maud Lowther, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> wife of Thomas Legh of Lyme Hall; when education ceased it reverted to Crown Estate; now two houses + one in the playground; listed II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ingersley Vale<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Higher mills<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Was two mills; c.1789, 1830s; cotton and many other uses incl. <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parrott &amp; Horsfield<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1874-1893), <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heaver\u2019s Brewery<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> (1893-1920), bottling (1920-1931) burnt down, <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radions<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shrigley Dyers<\/a>; demolished late 1990s now housing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lower mills<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antrobus<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> built and rented out; 1792; cotton<\/li>\n<li>Tullis Russell; paper coating mill (stamp paper), employee owned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainow mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Several mills on this site; originally a corn mill (possibly first in district); paper, cotton, and silk; corn mill let to the Adshead family as early as 1549;<\/li>\n<li>Burnt down 1856, again in 1908, never rebuilt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mill Lane<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, part of a &#8216;salt way&#8217;, Middlewich to Buxton.<\/li>\n<li>Mill pond filled in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ingersley Clough mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<p>(Not visited on the walk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1792\/3, Edward Collier 1809, rebuilt after fire in 1819;<\/li>\n<li>Cotton, workers\u2019 cottages, managers house, apprentice house;<\/li>\n<li>Water powered until 1950s, originally double wheel, later single wheel 56\u2019x9\u2019 largest on British mainland, leat 1803; Clough Pool; 1895 dynamos installed; never steam powered although there was a boiler for process steam, see hillside chimney; one of the first electric powered mills;<\/li>\n<li>Wire conveyor (20thC) between Clough and Rainow mills (c.200m) for rolls of cloth;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swindells<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> Era, 1821-42;<\/li>\n<li>The printworks, 1842-78;<\/li>\n<li>The bleachworks, 1878-1929; <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A J King (MP 1906-10)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; dyeing and bleaching;<\/li>\n<li>Later 20th Century, Slater, Harrison &amp; Co. and used initially as a printworks for litho and letterpress printing;<\/li>\n<li>1937, variety of companies and uses including dyeing and bleaching;<\/li>\n<li>1999, fire destroyed oldest building;<\/li>\n<li>Recent demolition prior to redevelopment; exposure of covered river.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waulk mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Location uncertain but believed to have been close to Waulk Mill Farm house; woollen mill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Up field path to <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cow Lane<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Notice coal mining on Kerridge Hill; miners\u2019 cottages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adshead&#8217;s Barn Farm<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Oldest property on this side of the valley built by George Adshead early 17thC;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5060\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Shepley Chatterton 1839-1929<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, Milestone King in <em>Bury Times;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Arthur Grindey, and sister, milk deliveries, trolly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cottages with ginnels; common yards, outside privies, second row of cottages behind first.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Queensbench Building&#8217;, lodging for judiciary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Through <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cumberland Drive<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deanway, Mill Bank Court<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Note Lower mills and location of pool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Built 1820s; site of <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primitive Methodist Chapel<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Methodists in Bollington<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">.<\/li>\n<li>Mill (&lt;1836), owned then by Edward Sheldon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Built in 1830s; notice garrets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water Street School<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; secondary until 1964, little used since, now controlled by BIT who have developed it to make better use of it.<\/li>\n<li>First cinema in Foundry Street.<\/li>\n<li>Foundry in John Street.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Many shops<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">.<\/li>\n<li>River tunnel under canal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macclesfield Canal<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1826-31 route planned by Thomas Telford, varied and built by <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Crosley<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pleasuregate \/ Pledgegate<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">; coal staithes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Embankment \/ Aqueduct<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-alignment of river and tunnel; construction of embankment; spread of failed attempt; all stone construction; beautiful stone aqueduct, largest structure on the Macclesfield canal.<\/li>\n<li>Coal loading shed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=3946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence mill<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1830 construction; enlargement to 1870; builders: <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Swindells &amp; Joseph Brooke<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=4869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Bank House<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, Joseph Brooke I, but he never lived there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=7861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Limefield<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">, Martin Swindells I; crinoline door; house presently being restored.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canal footbridge<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=15617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memorial Garden<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Originally established 1920; new memorial stones consecrated 11\/10\/2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=18574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coronation Gardens<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Children\u2019s playground built 1953, refurbed 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palmerston Street<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=10333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire Cinema<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>I am always pleased to field your questions &#8211; I may not always have an answer, but I may be able to point you in the right direction for one! Email me at:&nbsp;<br \/>\nTim Boddington, <a href=\"mailto:tim@happyvalley.org.uk\">tim@happyvalley.org.uk<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.happyvalley.org.uk\">www.happyvalley.org.uk<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe history pages: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happyvalley.org.uk\/history\">www.happyvalley.org.uk\/history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page documents the Heritage Walk led by the Webmaster, Tim Boddington, as part of several of the annual Bollington Walking Festivals. Participants who would like to know more than the script spoken during the walk are welcome to follow-up on this page which contains links to other history pages containing further information. 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