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URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. parish, formed in 1876; the church, built in 1874-6, Offices, 2 Guide lane, Hooley Hill. at 11. cost of £4,000, defrayed by James Walton esq. Board day, 1st Thursday in month. of Haughton Dale, is an oak-framed structure filled in with cement, and consists of chancel, nave, south .1\IEliBERS. aisle, north and south porches and an octagonal turret Chairman, J sph. Hands French, Den ton rd. Hooley Hill rising from the ground Rlld contaming 3 bells: the Retire lower stage of the turret serves as a baptistery: the Paul Grundy, Guide lane, Hooley Hill...... I 903 east window is stained: the church will seat about Joseph Hands French (chairman), Denton road, 400: at the north entrance to the churchyard is a. HoolPy Hill ...... I 903 lych-gate. The register dates from the year 1876. James Kellett, Audenshaw road, Audenshaw ...... I9<>3 The living is a .rectory, net yearly value £245, Joseph Burst, Uenton road, Hooley Hill...... 1903 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Mao- Alfred Heginbottom, Shepley road, Hooley Hill.. 1904 chaster, and held since I902 by the Rev. Arthur Robert Appleby, Deuton road, Hooley Hill ...... 1904 Dixon M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. A rectory Peter Downs, Dt1nton road, Ilooley Hill ...... 1904 house was built near the church in 1881 from \Vm. Hamer J.P. Birch ho. Ashton-under-Lyne ... I904 designs by Mr. R. Medland Taylor, architect, of Man- Waiter Richardson, Guide lane, Hooley Hill ...... 1905 chester, at a cost of about £2,000. The population of Charles Blyth, Pitt street, Hooley Hill ...... 1905 the ecclesiastical parish in 1901 was 1,737. St. Anne's Am os Davies, Audenshaw road, Audensh~w ...... I905 is an ecclesiastical parish formed December g, 1881, from Joseph Thornley, Guide lane, Hooley Hill...... 1905 the parishes of Christ Church, Denton, and St. George. • Hyde, a portion consequently being in the county of OFFICIALS. Chester; the chureh, built and endowed in 1881-2 at a Clerk, Frederick Hamer, Booth st. Ashton-under-Lyne cost of £18,000, solely defrayed by the late Joseph Side.. Treasurer, Henry Ed. Poole, City & Midland Bank, botham esq. is a cruciform structure of red brick with Audenshaw Bath stone dressings, in the Early English style, con­ 11-fedical Officer of Health, Frederick W. Allkin, Denton sisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch a.nd a Surveyor, William Clough, 2 Guide lane central tower with 6 bell~: it contains some exquisite Sanitary Inspector, John T. Edwards, 2 Guide lane mosaics: all the windows are stained and are memorials Rate Collector !}' Assistant Overseer, _Francis Cooper, 2 to the Sidebotham family: there are 350 sittings: at the Guide lane south entrance to the churchyard is a lych-gate. The rPgister dates from the year 1881. The living is a County Polz'ce Station, 155 Denton rd. Christopher rectory, net yearly value £250, with residenee, in the Humphrey~>, inspector, & I sergeant. & 5 constables gift of J. W. & E. J. Sidebotham esqrs. and held Re_qistrar of Births c! Deaths .fo11 Audenshaw Sub-district, sinee 1889 by the Rev. :Frederick Parrett. The rectory William Walker, jun. Guidelane,Hooley Hill; attend­ house, which is near the church, was erected in 1882 at ance thurs. 1.45 to 3 p.m the sole expense of the late J oseph ~idebotham esq. The population of that portion of the ecclesiastical parish SCHOOLS. which is in in 1891 was 2,825, of whole parish, 4, 35 7· The W osleyan Methodist Chapel in St. Stephen's, Guide Bridge (mixed), built in 1847, at a Two Trees lane, erected in 1810, will seaL a.boui cost of £I ,soo, for 428 children; average attendance, 450; the Primitive Methodist chapel at Haughton 280; Thomas Dowbiggin, mastAr; Miss Kerr, green, built in 1856, has 250 sittings. Haughton infants' mistress Green Conservative Club, a building of red brick with St. Stephen's (branch), Hooley Hill (mixed), built in stone dressings, was erected in 1887, at a cost of about 1871, at a cost of £1,100, and enlarged in 1884, for 300 £6oo, and comprises billiard, readir.g and games rooms, children; average attendance, 228; John William secretary's office and a large room for meetings; there Bramall, master; Mrs. Mary Sellars, infants' mistress are nbout Ioo members. The principal landowners are British, Hooley Hill (mixed), built in 1S76, for 400 Mrs. Hyde Clarke, who is lady of the manor, Edward children; average attendance, 206; James Wm. Mack­ John Sidebot;ham M.B., J.P. of Bowdon and W. E. H. lin, master ; Mrs. Bertha J ackson, infants' mistress Walton esq. The rateable value of Haughton in I90Z Hooley Hill (Wesleyan), built in 1854 & e:r:.larged in was £16,367. 1884, & rebuilt 1902, for 500 children; average at­ tendance, 261; \V. H. Humphreys, master; Miss l\fary Assista-nt Overseer, Samuel Fidler, 45 Two Trees lane. E. Smith, infants' mistress Parish Clerk, John Carter. Endowed British, Audenshaw, built & endowed in I 745 PosT & :MoNEY ORDER OFFICE, SAVIKGS BANK & AxNUITT by Miles Hinton, with a sum of £8o yearly, derived & INSURANCE 0.FFICE.-Henry Morton, Sub-Post M~UJt". from municipal & other stocks, & l'ebuilt in 1783 ; the Letter box cleared at 8.45 a.m. & 1.30 & 7-40 p.m. endowment is applied to the provision of free educa­ Letters th~'Cmgh Manchester are delivered from Den ton tion for such poor children of the rarish as are unable to pay fees; the school will hold 260 children; average at 7.30 a.m. 12.45 & 5.30 p.m. Denton is the neamt telegraph office attendance, 200 ; William :Frederick Knott, master ; l\1iss Fanny :Finch, infants' mistress Church of Home for Girls (Miss Julia Smith, PLACES O:F WORSHIP, matron), Audenshaw road WITII Tll!ES OF SERVICE. St. Mary the Virgin Church, Haughton Green rd. HAlLWAY STATIONS. Haughton-Hev. Arthur Dixon M.A. rector; 8 & 10.30 Audenshaw (L. & N. W.), Daniel Edwards, station a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; week days, 7.30 a.m. & 7 p.m master St. Anne's Church, Hyde rd. Haughton-Rev. Frederici: :Fa.irfield (Great Central), H. Gadsby, E'tation master Parrett, rector; 8 & 10.30 a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; 8 a. m. Guide Bridge (Great Central), David W. Vernon, & 7.30 p.m. daily station master; J. Hobinson, goods agent for G. C. ; Primitive Methodist Chapel, Haughton Green rd. H. J ohnson, goods agent for the Midland; T. H. Haughton-2.30 & 6 p.m Trowman, goods agent for L. & N. \V Haughton Wesleyan Church, Two Trees lane-10.30a.m. Hooley Hill (L. & N. W.), Alfred Smith, station master & 6 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m

CARRIER. SCHOOLS. George Ilibbert (general), 4 Canning st. Hooley Hill Haughton Dale School, St. Mary's (mixPd & infants), built in 1842, for 300 children; average attendancot HAUGHTON, formerly a township in Manchester 140; J. R. Hardcastlo, master ; Mrs. J. Brown, in­ parish, is now incorporated w1th the township of fants' mistress Den ton b:y a Local Government Board Order dated 19th St. Anne's National (mixed & infants), built in 1888 at April, 1894, and is in the rural deanery of Ashton­ the sole cost of J., E. & N. Sidebotham esqrs. for sso-­ under-Lyne and archdeaconry and diocese of Man­ children; average attendance, 323; W. Hitchon, chester. St. Mary the Virgin's is an ecclesiastical master; Mrs. M. A. Hulse, infants' mistress