This item is about Walk Mill Cottage and the original Walk Mill in Hayfield. It refers to these and associated aspects such as the Villge Hall garden where there was a small mill lodge, all of this land and around was owned at one time by the Calico Printers Association. Other related aspects are Wood Printworks, Hayfield Relief Road, Grotto Mill, St Matthews Church, water supplies from the Phoside Stream and Kinder Printworks and ownership of Walk Mill by amongst others a guy by the name of Kinder.
Friday, August 1, 2025
Hayfield Harry Moor water supply
This item is about Hayfield's Harry Moor water supply from inception back in 1901, when Stockport Council were seeking permission to build Kinder reservoir. However, Severn Trent Water terminated the Harry Moor supply in 1997 and Hayfield water now comes from the Ladybower and Derwent reservoirs. Read on - I trust you find this interesting.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Hayfield Corn Mill
During 2023 I researched Hayfield Corn Mill - which I believed to have been adjacent to the weir in the centre of the village. This took me on an interesting journey and, with the current owner of a building which purports to be the 'Old Corn Mill', and we came to the conclusion that it is not!
18 Farms For Sale 1919
When Francis Sumner of Park Hall Hayfield died, the executors of his will had to sell a large part of his aquired estate. The following is the Sale particulars of those farms and gives a great insight to the properties.
18 Farms for Sale
St Matthews Church Hayfield
During the early part of 2025 I became aware of various information relating to St Matthews Church Hayfield and related topics. It was orginally sited at the confluence of the Rivers Kinder and Sett, in the locality of the well known Pack Horse Bridge. Subsquently a church was built in the centre of the village in 1848, where it is to this day - albeit this building is a rebuild of an an earlier 1405 church. Does the Phoside stream pass under the church? - read on.
Here's yet another publication by the renowned local historian Roger Bryant, a significant figure assoiated with New Mills Local History Society.
Hayfield Civic Trust Display
I am a 'Friend' of the Hayfield Civic Trust and the following information relates to a display mounted in the Hayfield Library during October 2024. In order to share the information more widely please see the following content shared, at the time, via email to interested parties.
Hi Friends - thought you may be interested in the Display in the Library.
The following link takes you to some of the background info:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10mHHgcX2xK1TYp55QnhTDnOMrrngwCTb
In addition to the earlier message and information - the following items were available in the Library via a USB Memory stick and a Library PC but thought it useful to share them here for you:
Reservoir railway walk video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lpqqk0K-jZ9SrMFRgP5I_mLDUhMGgNUM/preview
2. Hayfield Train video – compilation of ‘Ken Rangely film’ and ‘Rail to Trail’ video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IYsFwURwiPIp9MQ_ovFveM3DXReGozu8/preview
3. Rail to Trail walk video. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SPRyyxeWyC3pWEYvLZeyWUPYlzp3aCIs/preview
5. Park Hall Pool video. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JobpzsQaD69FH65db6d1w4d9Vs1kHAbA/preview
7. Charlie Hearsum Relief Road
Album
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZlahAgsn3ZBla-indC23CZrwVqtfIpoe
8. Link to a side-by-side mapping Portal – which enable one to examine a comparison of an 1898 map of the village and the current ‘Google Earth’ style image as follows:
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Miscellany of Books and Publications of Interest
The following are a small sample of books and publications which I have collected over time and only have most of them in an electronic format but think they are worth sharing. I take no credit for them and am sure the originators will be pleased for their work to be shared in this way
Hayfield Parish Council Centenary booklet
Hayfield Parish Council list of maps etc
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