Chadkirk. 3 7 



quaries, but without the probability that is found in 

 another version. " In the Domesday Survey," says Mr 

 Urwick, " it is stated that Gamel held this manor under 

 Earl Cedda, a Saxon, who was suffered to retain pos- 

 session, and from whom, (according to the able editor 

 of Gastrell's work,*) the place derived its name. The 

 earliest ecclesiastical notice occurs in the King's Book, 

 or 'Valor Ecclesiasticus' of Henry VIII., wherein is 

 named a ' Cantaria in Chadkyrke' endowed with lands 

 and tenements. In 1535 Chadkirk was a Roman Catho- 

 lic chapel, "t 



Butler, in his " Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and 

 other Principal Saints," (i., 288. Ed. 1833. Chetham 

 Library,) gives a different account again, saying that 

 St Chad was fifth Bishop of Mercia, to which diocese 

 he was transferred from York on the death of St Jaru- 

 man, the fourth bishop. St Chad himself died March 

 2, A.D. 673. 



Otterspool Bridge is so called from the number of 

 otters that were once to be seen thereabouts. Just 

 before coming to it, on the way from Chadkirk, may be 

 commenced a pleasant and quiet walk through fields and 

 lanes, and past Goyt Hall to Bredbury, and so to Stock- 

 port. Crossing the stream, which has now acquired 



* " Notilia Cestriensis" published by the Manchester Chetham 

 Society, is the work referred to. 



t "Nonconformity in Cheshire," by the Rev. W. Urwick (and 

 coadjutors.) Chester, 1862. 



