https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Mossley&feed=atom&action=historyMossley - Revision history2024-03-29T09:39:35ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.5https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Mossley&diff=59486&oldid=prevOwain at 19:30, 18 September 20182018-09-18T19:30:17Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mossley''' is a small town which spreads across the borders of [[Lancashire]], [[Cheshire]] and [[Yorkshire]], <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which </del>three [[Counties of the United Kingdom|counties]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">meet </del>in a 'Y' here on the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] (by ''Three Counties Road'' and ''Border Millfold'').  The town sits in the upper section of the Tame's valley, on the lower slopes of the [[Pennines]], <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3 </del>miles <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">northeast </del>of [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">9 </del>miles east of [[Manchester]].  The [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] follows the Tames down through the town.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mossley''' is a small town which spreads across the borders of [[Lancashire]], [[Cheshire]] and [[Yorkshire]], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">with the </ins>three [[Counties of the United Kingdom|counties]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">meeting </ins>in a 'Y' here on the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] (by ''Three Counties Road'' and ''Border Millfold'').  The town sits in the upper section of the Tame's valley, on the lower slopes of the [[Pennines]], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">three </ins>miles <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">north-east </ins>of [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nine </ins>miles east of [[Manchester]].  The [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] follows the Tames down through the town.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mossley is not a single-centred town; the Lancashire part, Mossley Brow, is west of the river and canal, with a natural centre at Market Street, while the Cheshire side, the east side of the valley and which may be called Micklehurst, spreads from Station Road and Staley Road, with Waggon Road crossing to the Lancashire side.  The Yorkshire part, Roughtown, is to the north, on the west side of the Tame.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mossley is not a single-centred town; the Lancashire part, Mossley Brow, is west of the river and canal, with a natural centre at Market Street, while the Cheshire side, the east side of the valley and which may be called Micklehurst, spreads from Station Road and Staley Road, with Waggon Road crossing to the Lancashire side.  The Yorkshire part, Roughtown, is to the north, on the west side of the Tame.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mossley''' is a small town which spreads across the borders of [[Lancashire]], [[Cheshire]] and [[Yorkshire]], which three [[Counties of the United Kingdom|counties]] meet in a 'Y' here on the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] (by Three Counties Road and Border Millfold).  The town sits in the upper section of the Tame's valley, on the lower slopes of the [[Pennines]], 3 miles northeast of [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] and 9 miles east of [[Manchester]].  The [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] follows the Tames down through the town.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mossley''' is a small town which spreads across the borders of [[Lancashire]], [[Cheshire]] and [[Yorkshire]], which three [[Counties of the United Kingdom|counties]] meet in a 'Y' here on the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] (by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Three Counties Road<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Border Millfold<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>).  The town sits in the upper section of the Tame's valley, on the lower slopes of the [[Pennines]], 3 miles northeast of [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] and 9 miles east of [[Manchester]].  The [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] follows the Tames down through the town.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mossley is not a single-centred town; the Lancashire part, Mossley Brow, is west of the river and canal, with a natural centre at Market Street, while the Cheshire side, the east side of the valley and which may be called Micklehurst, spreads from Station Road and Staley Road, with Waggon Road crossing to the Lancashire side.  The Yorkshire part, Roughtown, is to the north, on the west side of the Tame.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mossley is not a single-centred town; the Lancashire part, Mossley Brow, is west of the river and canal, with a natural centre at Market Street, while the Cheshire side, the east side of the valley and which may be called Micklehurst, spreads from Station Road and Staley Road, with Waggon Road crossing to the Lancashire side.  The Yorkshire part, Roughtown, is to the north, on the west side of the Tame.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>George Lawton, the son of magistrate and alderman John Lawton, inherited a family fortune and, when he died in August 1949, he left his entire estate (apart from some legacies) to the people of Mossley. Part of his estimated £40,000 estate was left to build a public meeting place, the George Lawton Hall, which is a testament to his generosity.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>George Lawton, the son of magistrate and alderman John Lawton, inherited a family fortune and, when he died in August 1949, he left his entire estate (apart from some legacies) to the people of Mossley. Part of his estimated £40,000 estate was left to build a public meeting place, the George Lawton Hall, which is a testament to his generosity.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Events<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=</del>==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Events==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mossley - alongside neighbouring [[Stalybridge]] and [[Uppermill]] in [[Saddleworth]] - helped launch the annual Whit Friday Band Contest, an internationally known brass band event. This came about when the three towns held unconnected brass band events on 6 June 1884.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mossley - alongside neighbouring [[Stalybridge]] and [[Uppermill]] in [[Saddleworth]] - helped launch the annual Whit Friday Band Contest, an internationally known brass band event. This came about when the three towns held unconnected brass band events on 6 June 1884.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 44:</td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On 13 March 1885 Mossley was granted a Charter of Incorporation to become a municipal borough, which though its boundaries changed in the interim lasted until 1974.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On 13 March 1885 Mossley was granted a Charter of Incorporation to become a municipal borough, which though its boundaries changed in the interim lasted until 1974.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1999 a new town council <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wa </del>established for the whole town, which has three wards based on the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">historic </del>county borders; with four members represent the Cheshire part, three members the Lancashire part and two members the Yorkshire part. The town has an unofficial badge pretending to be a coat of arms) which includes Cheshire's sheaf of corn, Lancashire's red rose and Yorkshire's white rose to signify the three shires.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1999 a new town council <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was </ins>established for the whole town, which has three wards based on the county borders; with four members represent the Cheshire part, three members the Lancashire part and two members the Yorkshire part. The town has an unofficial badge pretending to be a coat of arms) which includes Cheshire's sheaf of corn, Lancashire's red rose and Yorkshire's white rose to signify the three shires.</div></td></tr>
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|name=Mossley<br />
|county=Lancashire<br />
|picture=Mossley view.jpg<br />
|picture caption=Mossley<br />
|os grid ref=SD9702<br />
|latitude=53.5147<br />
|longitude=-2.0387<br />
|population=9,856<br />
|census year=2001<br />
|post town=Ashton-under-Lyne<br />
|postcode=OL5<br />
|dialling code=01457<br />
|LG district=Tameside<br />
|constituency=Stalybridge and Hyde<br />
|website=[http://www.mossley-council.co.uk/ Mossley Town Council]<br />
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'''Mossley''' is a small town which spreads across the borders of [[Lancashire]], [[Cheshire]] and [[Yorkshire]], which three [[Counties of the United Kingdom|counties]] meet in a 'Y' here on the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] (by Three Counties Road and Border Millfold). The town sits in the upper section of the Tame's valley, on the lower slopes of the [[Pennines]], 3 miles northeast of [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] and 9 miles east of [[Manchester]]. The [[Huddersfield Narrow Canal]] follows the Tames down through the town.<br />
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Mossley is not a single-centred town; the Lancashire part, Mossley Brow, is west of the river and canal, with a natural centre at Market Street, while the Cheshire side, the east side of the valley and which may be called Micklehurst, spreads from Station Road and Staley Road, with Waggon Road crossing to the Lancashire side. The Yorkshire part, Roughtown, is to the north, on the west side of the Tame.<br />
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Given its position on the edge of three shires, Mossley’s ecclesiastical boundaries are divided, so although the [[Diocese of Manchester]] extends to include [[Saddleworth]] (part of the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]), the Yorkshire streets are in a distinct parish, and those streets within Cheshire belong to the [[Diocese of Chester]].<br />
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==Name==<br />
Believed to originate, or first be heard, around 1319, the name Mossley means “Woodland clearing by a bog”; literally a “moss ley”.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hanks|first=Patrick|coauthors=Flavia Hodges, A.D. Mills, Adrian Room|title=The Oxford Names Companion|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2002|isbn=0-19-860561-7}}</ref><br />
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==Churches==<br />
The eccesiastical parishes correspond to the boundaries of the counties:<br />
*[[Church of England]]:<br />
**St George's – Lancashire<br />
**[http://stjohnsmossley.org/ St John the Baptist] – Roughtown, Yorkshire<br />
**[http://www.micklehurstallsaintschurch.org All Saints' Church] – Micklehurst, Cheshire.<br />
*Roman Catholic: St. Joseph’s<br />
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==History==<br />
Mossley, like so many in south Lancashire, grew as a mill town in the Industrial Revoution.<br />
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George Lawton, the son of magistrate and alderman John Lawton, inherited a family fortune and, when he died in August 1949, he left his entire estate (apart from some legacies) to the people of Mossley. Part of his estimated £40,000 estate was left to build a public meeting place, the George Lawton Hall, which is a testament to his generosity.<br />
<br />
==Events===<br />
Mossley - alongside neighbouring [[Stalybridge]] and [[Uppermill]] in [[Saddleworth]] - helped launch the annual Whit Friday Band Contest, an internationally known brass band event. This came about when the three towns held unconnected brass band events on 6 June 1884.<br />
<br />
==Town Council==<br />
On 13 March 1885 Mossley was granted a Charter of Incorporation to become a municipal borough, which though its boundaries changed in the interim lasted until 1974.<br />
<br />
In 1999 a new town council wa established for the whole town, which has three wards based on the historic county borders; with four members represent the Cheshire part, three members the Lancashire part and two members the Yorkshire part. The town has an unofficial badge pretending to be a coat of arms) which includes Cheshire's sheaf of corn, Lancashire's red rose and Yorkshire's white rose to signify the three shires.<br />
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==Sport==<br />
*Cricket: Micklehurst Cricket Club.<br />
*Football:<br />
**Mossley AFC<br />
**Mossley Juniors FC<br />
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==Outside links==<br />
*[http://www.mossleyweb.com Mossleyweb; Mossley AFC]<br />
*[http://www.mossley-council.co.uk Mossley Town Council]<br />
*[http://www.mossleyonline.co.uk MossleyOnline]<br />
*[http://www.mossley.net/ Mossley, History and Photo Guide to Mossley]<br />
*[http://www.tameside.gov.uk/corpgen/new/mossmenu.html Tameside Council] - Mossley Coat of Arms<br />
*[http://www.mossleyhollins.com Mossley Hollins High School]<br />
*[http://www.mossleybusiness.org.uk Mossley Business Association]<br />
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==References==<br />
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