A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



1865;" St. Paul's, Heaton Moor, 1877;" All 

 Saints' Heaton Norris, 1888 ; and St. Martin's, 

 Norris Bank, 1901. To the last-named the Crown 

 and the Bishop of Manchester present alternately ; 

 the bishop alone collates to Christ Church, St. John 

 the Baptist's, and All Saints' ; bodies of trustees pre- 

 sent to the others. 



The Wesleyans have churches at Heaton Norris, 

 Heaton Moor, and Heaton Mersey. 3 * The Primitive 

 Methodists also have one. The Congregationalists 

 have churches in each of the three portions of the 

 township named.* 6 In 1857 the Particular Baptists 

 had a chapel in Heaton Lane. 37 



The Unitarians began services at Heaton Moor 

 in 1893 and moved to their present building in 1900. 



The Presbyterian Church of England began ser- 

 vices at Heaton Chapel in 1899. 



St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church was opened in 

 1897, replacing one used for thirty years. 



REDDISH 



Redich, 1205, 1212; Radich, 1226; Rediche, 

 1262 ; Redditch, 1381 ; Radishe, Reddishe, xvi 

 cent. 



This township has a length of ^\ miles from north 

 to south, and an area of 1,541 acres. The northern 

 boundary is formed by the ancient Nico Ditch ; part 

 of the eastern by the River Tame. The surface is 

 usually level, but slopes away to the river. The 

 hamlets in 1856 were Reddish Green, Sandfold, and 

 Whitehill. 1 The population was in 1901 included 

 in that of Stockport. 



The small town of Reddish lies near the centre of 

 the township. From this roads lead away in all direc- 

 tions ; the principal are those to Stockport on the 

 south, passing through the hamlet of South Reddish ; 

 to Heaton Norris on the west ; and to Manchester 

 on the north, passing through Barlow Fold, North 

 Reddish, and Sandfold. The southern end of the 

 township has become a suburb of Stockport. The 

 London and North Western Company's line from this 

 town to Ashton crosses it, with a station called Red- 

 dish, near the centre. The Great Central Company's 

 line from Manchester to Stockport touches the northern 



end of the township, within which is a station also 

 named Reddish. The same company's loop line from 

 Central Station to London Road, Manchester, crosses 

 the north end. The Manchester and Stockport 

 Canal, 1797, goes through the township from north 

 to south. 



In 1666 the principal house was that of Jane 

 Stopford, with ten hearths liable to the tax ; the total 

 number in the township was fifty-six.* Though so i 

 near Stockport there was in Reddish in 1857 neither ! 

 post-office, schoolmaster, lawyer, doctor, nor pawn- 

 shop. Agriculture was then the chief occupation of 

 the people, but bleaching, hand-loom weaving, and 

 hat-making had at one time been pursued to a slight 

 extent. 3 There are now cotton mills, calico printing 

 works, bleach works, and roperies. 



The township was formerly governed by a local 

 board often members, constituted in 1881, and more 

 recently by an urban district council. It was added 

 to Stockport in 1901, being divided into two wards. 



In the survey of 1 2 1 2 it is stated that 

 M4NOR Roger son of William held a plough-land 

 in REDDISH of the king in thegnage by 

 a rent of 6/., and that Matthew de Reddish held it of 

 him by the same service. 4 The mesne lord was of 

 the Kirkby Ireleth family, and his position was recog- 

 nized down to the ijth century. 5 



The descendants of Matthew de Reddish 6 cannot 

 be traced, but a family using the local surname, 

 who were apparently connected with the Hultons of 

 Hulton and Ordsall, 7 held Reddish and Heaton in 

 Prestwich down to the I7th century. Richard son 

 of Richard de Reddish was a plaintiff in 1313-14,* 

 and ten years later Richard de Reddish held an ox- 

 gang of land in Reddish by the service of 6/.* 

 Richard son of Richard de Hulton of Reddish in 

 1331 and later claimed a messuage and lands against 

 Jordan son of John de Reddish, who had them by 

 grant of Richard de Hulton, formerly husband of 

 Ellen de Reddish, the plaintiff being her heir. 10 In 

 1346 John de Kirkby held Reddish in socage, paying 

 6s. rent by the hands of Richard de Reddish. 11 This 

 Richard appears in suits for some years afterwards." 



A later Richard died in 1404 holding the manor 

 of Reddish of Sir Richard Kirkby in socage by a rent 

 of 6s. ; Ralph, his son and heir, was thirty years of 



88 Land. Gay,. 30 June 1865. 



84 For district, ibid. 7 May and 9 Aug. 

 1878. 



85 Teviot Dale Chapel was built in 

 1824 ; Booker, op. cit. 194. 



86 Hanover Chapel was built in 1821 ; 

 Wycliffe Chapel in 1850 ; ibid. 194. 



8 ? Ibid. loc. cit. 



1 Booker, Didsbury (Chet. Soc.), 197; 

 there were two greens, one by Stockport 

 Road, called Little Reddish Green, and 

 another nearer the centre. Whitehill, at 

 the south end of the township, was so 

 named from a house built about 1820. 



3 Subs. R. bdle. 250, no. 9. Robert 

 Walker's house had seven hearths. No 

 other house had more than three. 



8 Booker, op. cit. 201. 



4 Lanes. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 69. William son of 

 Roger de Reddish paid the 6s. rent in 

 1226 ; ibid. 138. 



5 This is clear from the inquisitions, 

 &c., quoted later. 



6 He held a moiety of Denton, but 

 alienated it. A Matthew de Reddish was 



living in 1262 ; Final Cone. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 134. 



7 In 1311 the manor of Reddish was 

 settled on Richard de Hulton of Reddish 

 and Ellen his wife, with remainders to 

 their sons Matthew, Richard, and John. 

 Richard son of Richard de Hulton put 

 in his claim ; Final Cone, ii, II. From 

 later pleas (as cited) it seems that the 

 wife was Ellen de Reddish ; probably, 

 therefore, she was the heiress. Their 

 descendants seem to have dropped the 

 surname Hulton. The Richard who ' put 

 in his claim' was no doubt the head of the 

 family Richard de Hulton of Ordsall. 



8 Assize R. 424, m. 5. 



9 Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 38*. 



10 De Banco R. 287, m. 492 d ; 292, 

 m. 367 ; the grant was made to John 

 son of Robert de Reddish, apparently the 

 father of Jordan. The Reddish family 

 about this time succeeded to the Hulton 

 manor of Heaton ; see the account of 

 Prestwich. Jordan son of John de Red- 

 dish was a defendant in 1337 ; Assize R. 

 1424, m. 1 1 d. Robert de Reddish, per- 



326 



haps the grandfather of Jordan, about 

 1260 made a grant to Richard de Byron 

 of land within bounds beginning at the 

 marked oak and descending by the ditch, 

 Little Brook and Mere Clough to Yar- 

 draw ; thence to Hugh's house and the 

 starting point. In return Richard was to 

 give four wax candles a year to the church 

 of Manchester towards the maintenance 

 of St. Mary's light ; Byron Chartul. 

 (Towneley MS.), no. 23/25. 



11 Add. MS. 32103, fol. 146*. 



13 At Easter, 1 3 54, Roger son of Roger 

 de Pilkington recovered a third part of 

 the mill of Reddish against Richard de 

 Reddish ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 3, 

 m. 7 ; see also Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, 

 App. 354. In 1359 there were cross 

 suits respecting a messuage and lands in 

 Reddish between John de Chorley and 

 Joan his wife on the one side and Richard 

 de Reddish the elder or Richard de Red- 

 dish, Alice his wife, and Thurstan his son 

 on the other ; Duchy of Lane. Assize R. 

 7, m. 5, 2d. The dispute was settled in 

 1381 ; Final Cone, iii, II. 



