Newhey
| Newhey | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 Newhey from its boundary with Shaw and Crompton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD934115 |
| Location: | 53°36’0"N, 2°5’54"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Rochdale |
| Postcode: | OL16 |
| Dialling code: | 01706 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rochdale |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Rochdale |
Newhey is a suburban village in Lancashire, close by Milnrow. It sits at the foot of the South Pennines, by Junction 21 of the M62 motorway and on the River Beal, two and a half miles east of Rochdale and ten miles north-east of Manchester.
Newhey originates as a hamlet within the township of Butterworth. It was described in 1828 as "consisting of several ranges of cottages and two public houses".[1] In the early 19th century a major road was built through Newhey from Werneth to Littleborough.
Newhey expanded as part of an unplanned process of urbanisation, brought on by the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, and is now home to the Ellenroad Steam Museum - the engine house of the former Ellenroad Ring Mill, the rest of which was demolished in 1985. It holds the world's largest working steam engine.
History
Lying by the older localities of Milnrow, Ogden and Haugh, Newhey is thought to have acquired its name as a result of land reclamation.[1]
Newhey was home to the Newhey Brick and Terracotta Co. Ltd., a prosperous brick and tile works which opened on Huddersfield Road in 1899. Its bricks are found in buildings worldwide. Most mills and associated terraced houses in the Rochdale and Oldham areas were built from this "Newhey brick".
In the 1920s, Newhey had at least five cotton mills, including Ellenroad, Newhey, Coral, Haugh and Garfield (demolished 1969).
Landmarks
Milnrow War Memorial, a Grade II Listed building|listed structure, is in Newhey's Memorial Park.[2] Sculpted from Sandstone by G Thomas in 1923, the memorial is surmounted by a bronze statue of a First World War Infantry soldier with rifle and fixed bayonet, symbolic of the district's young manhood in early First World War.
Ellenroad Engine House was designed by Sir Philip Stott, 1st Baronet. Its tall chimney makes it a local landmark.
Newhey parish church, dedicated to St Thomas, was built in 1876 to serve the new Anglican parish of Newhey.[3][4] The church was badly damaged by arson on 21 December 2007.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Newhey) |
- Ellenroad Engine House
- St Thomas Church, Newhey
- Newhey Community Primary School
- St Thomas School, Newhey
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Butterworth (1828), p. 113.
- ↑ Wyke, Terry (2005). Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-567-8.
- ↑ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10355187&c_id=Newhey EP: Lancashire through time.
- ↑ Townships – Butterworth
- ↑ Church hit by fire - News - Rochdale Observer
- Butterworth, James (1828). A History And Description Of The Town And Parish Of Rochdale In Lancashire. W D Varey.
- Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council (n.d.). Metropolitan Rochdale Official Guide. London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Limited.