DIRECTORY.] . HYDE. 309 HURDSFIELD is a township and suburb of Maccles- trustees, and held .since 1877 by the Rev. 'Yilliam Laycock ield, partly within the municipal boro1,1gh of Ma.cclesfield, :M. A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. There is a W esleyan bJling one mile north from the market place, and in 1840 chapel, ereeted in 1865. Hurdsfield House, about I! mile ll"aB formed into a parish out of that of Presthury, in the from Ma.ccles.field centre, is the .8eat of Peter Pownall : division of the county, petty seSISional division Brocklehurst esq. The Queen is lady of the manor, of oi Prestbury, Macclesfield hundred, union and county court· which the Earl of Derby is s.teward, and P. P. Brockle• district, and in the rural deanery and archdeaconry of burst esq. and Edward Brocklehurst esq. of Kynnersley Macclesfield and diocese of . T'he Macclesfield Manor, Reigate, are the principal landowners. The soil is canal passes through. The church of the Holy Trinity, clayey; .subsoil, i'ock. The chief crops are pasture. The built in 1839, is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, con- area is 616 acres of land and 10 of water; rateable value, sisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western £2,048; population in 1.891 was 443 exclusive of 3,282 in tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 2 bells: in Macclesfield borough. · iL88g the church was thoroughly- repainted and decorated Letters through Macclesfield, which is the nearest post, throughout, the organ rebuilt and various other impr<>ve~ money order & tel·egraph office ments made, at a cost of about £6oo; tlhe windows- were Schools. also renewed at the cost of Mrs. Dent, of Sudeley Castle, National, HigheT Hurd·sfield (Trinity) (girls & infant~), Gloucestershire, as a memori·al to her father, mot1ler and erected in 1841, for 360 children; average attendance, brother, as recorded on a brass tablet on the sout-h wall 165 girls & 90 infants; Mrs. Anna Maria Peachey, mis• of the church : a handsome communion cloth was presented tress ; 'Miss Eliza Peachey, infants' mistress about 1892: there are sittings for Boo persons. The National, Lower Hurdsfield (Fence street)(boys & infants), churchyard was enlarged a

PRIVATE BESIDENTS. Lamas Thomas, Osborne villa Hall Edward, shopkeeper Lowcock Miss, Thornhill Halliday George, insurance agent Adams James Needham James, Roe Wood house Hooley Samuel, shopkeeper Brocklehurst Peter Pownall, Hurds· Rowbottom Miss, Higher Hurdsfield J ohnson William, shopkeeper field house Smale Harry Edgar, Hurdsfield cott Massey Mark, farmer Broom Miss, The Cliffe Smith George, Roe Wood cottage Melior George, farmer, Cliffe farm Clarke J onathan, Oak cottage Needham James, coal merchant Clarke Joshua, Ecton view COMMERCIAL. Oakes John, farmer Clayton J ames, Holly bank Barlow Thos. farmer, Jennings farm Ollerenshaw Jn.Jas.farmr. Lower Fold Cooper John, Ecton view Beswick William, farmer Reed Samuel, farmer, Swancoe farm Corbishley John, Hob cottage Bibby Joseph, farmer,Close House frm Redfern Edward, farmer, Kerridge la Goodwin Mrs. Higher Hurdsfield Brocklehurst John, shopkeepr. Higher Roberts Thos. frmr.Higher Fence frm Higginbottom John, Highfield houses Hurdsfield Rowbotham Chas. farmr. ThrigbyFold Horsfall Thomas C. Swancoe park Brown William, farmer, Common side Sims Wm. farmer, Higher Fence rd Kerfoot Robert, Highfield houses Crombleholme Dinah (Mrs.), George Starer Joseph, Three Crowns P.H Laycock Rev. Wm.,M.A. The Vicarage & Dragon P.H Sutton Peter, farmer

' HYDE, WITH THE SUBURBS OF GEE CROSS, GODLEY AND NEWTON. HYDE is a municipal borough, with a st·ation on the Stockport; the church, ere-cted in 1868, at a cost of about Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire r·ailway, and is 7~ [3,ooo, is an edifice of brick with stone dressings, in the miles east from Manchester and 5 north-east from Stock· Early English :Style, from de>signs by Mr. R. Medland port; it is on the Peak Forest Canal and on the river Tame, Taylor, architect, of Manchester, and consis.ts of chancel, which bounds tihe township on the wes·t, separating it nave and a western belfry, containing one bell: the chan· from 'the county of Lancwster, and is a market town and eel iS> separated from the nave by a dwarf screen of stone the head of a county court district and petty sessional and iron, erected in memory of Rev. Robert Leigh, late divisicm, in the Hyde division of the oounty, hundred of vicar, who died in 1872: there are sittings for 610 persons: Macclesfield and unions o.f Stockport and Ashton-nnder­ the former church, erected in 1838, is now used as a day Lyme, rural deanery or Mottram, archdeaconry of Maccles· and Sunday &chool. The regi~ter date;;. from the y€-ar field, and dioc>ese of Chest-er. r868. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £3ro, The town was incorporated 8 Feb. 1881; the borough with residence, in On chapel, in Goorge. street, was erected 'Water from works in Stockport road, belonging to the Cor· in 1858. The. CemeteTy at the south end of the town wag poration, the reserwirs being filled from the Manchtlster purcha.sed by the corporation fo·r £ 7,83o, the first inter­ main, whiclh pas•ses through the town from l:lhe water ment taking place in November, 1894, and consists o! Teserves at Woodhead, by arrangement with the Corpora­ 24 acre>s, half of which is enclosed for interments. The lion of Manches-ter. Up to December, 1895, a. :;urn of ground is divided into three sections, having chapels fur £37,154 had been expended on ·a .syS'I:esm of draina~e for the· Ohurch of Eno-land, Catholic. and Nonconformists; a lhe b~rough, in addition to [13,295 on the sewage deposit further sum Qf £;o,5oo has been expended in laying out 'Works (opened in August, 1893) ; a refuse destructor has the grounds. The T'own hall, in Market place, erected 'been erected at a cost of [4,656, also opened in August, durin~ the years 1883-5, at a cost of [g,o5o, is a building

1893· St. George's is an ecclesiastica-l parish, formed of red Ruabon brick and • &tone in a free Renai'l- Jan. Io, 1843 ; the church, consecrated in 1832, i& a sance style, from designs by Mr. J. ,V. Beaumont, archi- t!pacious building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting tect, of Manches-ter, and consists of, on the ground flcor, cl \'!mall cihancel, nav>e of 6 bays, aisles and a lofty we atern office<> for the town clerk, borough engineer and other 'to-wer with pinnacles, containing a clock and 8 bells : the municipal officel's, and on the floor above a Council c"b.am­ east window is st{lined. The church was renovated and ' ber, mayor's parlour, commit-tee rooms. and cloak room'> re-seated in 1883, at a cost of £2,ooo, raised by public &c. : the principal entrance is through a tower, 103 f~et in subscription, and now affords 1,6oo sittings. The register height, containing a .good clock with Cambridge chime5, dates from the year I 832. The living is a vicarage, :net presented by Mr. Joshua Bradley, of Godley. The cor­ )'early value £253, partly derived from offertories, v;ith poration have at present no insignia except the borough 'residence, in the gift of the rector of Stockport, and held seal, which is an embossing s·tamp bearing- the arms e.nli J;ince 1888 by the Rev. William George Bridges M.A. of St. crest g-ranted to the town by the Ronl Colle.g-e of Arms. John's College, Cambridge, and surrogate. St. Thomas'a 18 JulY,• 1882. The Mechanics' Institute and Technic'l-1 is an ecclt"~ia,.tical pariilh, formed Sept. 8, I846, out of ~hool, in Market stre<>t. erec~el in r86r, transferred to •