SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



HuLME of Hulme. 

 Barry of eight or and 

 azure on a canton argent 

 a chaplet gules. 



His heir was his son William Hulme, founder of the 

 Hulme exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford. He 

 lived at Kearsley, and being 

 left childless, devoted his estates 

 to charitable uses, a life in- 

 terest to his widow being re- 

 served." She died in 1700, 

 when the trustees came into 

 possession of the whole.'' 

 Owing to the growth of Man- 

 chester the trust estates have 

 increased in value enormously, 

 and several Acts of Parliament 

 have been passed to regulate 

 the uses." Hulme Hall, the 

 residenceof the family, was later 

 known as Broadstone Hall." 



Other families appear from time to time as owning 

 lands in the township, as those of Birches,'^ Bibby," 

 and Stanley." John Reddish was the only landowner 

 contributing to the subsidy of 1 541,'' but in 1622 

 three are named — Clement Coke, Margaret Hulme, 

 and Thomas Bibby." 



In 1788 Thomas Wenman (William) Coke paid 

 j^49 out of the total land tax of ^^68, the next con- 

 tributor being Brasenose College, Oxford, £(), on 

 account of the Hulme estates." In 1844 John Hyde 

 had an estate of 210 acres in the township, being 

 about a seventh of the land." 



For the Established Church St. Elisabeth's was 

 built in 1883 ; Sir W. H. Houldsworth has the 

 patronage of the rectory. In North Reddish is the 

 temporary church of St. Agnes, the Crown and the 

 Bishop of Manchester presenting alternately. 



The Wesleyans have a church. 



The Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph was 

 built in 1882. 



STRETFORD 



Stretford, 1212. Trafford, 12 12. 



This large township," lying between the Irwell 

 and Cornbrook on the north and the Mersey on the 

 south, occupies the south-west corner of the parish, 

 and contains 3,255 acres.' The surface is compara- 

 tively level, though it slopes to the Mersey. Stretford 

 proper lies in the south, taking its name from an 

 ancient ford over the Mersey, also called Crosford. 

 The north-eastern portion is called TraiFord or Old 

 Trafford ; a ford over the Irwell is said to have been 

 near it. Longford lies on the eastern border. The 

 population in 1901 was 30,436. 



The principal road is that on the line of the old 

 Roman road from Chester to Manchester, and crosses 

 the Mersey by a bridge at the point where the ford 

 was.' From Stretford village roads go east and west 

 to Fallowfield and to Urmston. Old Trafford has to 

 some extent become urban, and there are many streets 

 of houses on the border of Hulme. In this part of 

 the township are the Botanical Gardens, opened in 

 183 1, and the Lancashire cricket ground, with several 

 other cricket and football grounds. Pomona Gardens 

 formerly occupied land at the junction of the Corn- 

 brook and the Irwell. 



Henshaw's Blind Asylum at Old Trafford was 

 established in 1837. A deaf and dumb school, 

 which originated in 1823, found a home adjacent 

 to it in 1837. 



The Cheshire Lines Committee's Manchester and 

 Liverpool line crosses the northern portion of the 

 township,* with a station called Trafford Park, 

 and has an older line south to Stockport ; ' there is 

 a large goods yard near the northern boundary, close 

 to which, on the Irwell, are docks and jetties of 

 the Ship Canal ; also a corn elevator and various large 



"* For an account of him see Booker's 

 Didshury, 216-19; hia will is given in 

 full. A pedigree was recorded in 1664.; 

 Dugdale, Visit. 158. 



" Booker, op. cit. 219, 220. 



'■* Ibid. 220-5. ^ rental of 1710 is 

 printed in Mancb. Guard. N. and Q. no. 

 1263. Tlie Hulme trustees in 1844 

 owned 225 acres in Reddisti ; Booker, 

 op. cit. 201. 



'" Ibid. 225 ; ' Hulme Hall alias 

 Broadstone' occurs in 1632. 



" In 1284 William son of Lycot un- 

 successfully claimed a messuage and 

 8 acres in Reddish against Henry de 

 Trafford, Henry del Birches, and Anabel, 

 daughter of William le Norreys ; Assize 

 R. 1265, m. 5 d. Matthew del Birches 

 in 1323 secured a messuage and lands in 

 Reddish from Hugh son of Richard del 

 Birches and Cecily his wife ; Final Cone. 

 ii, 48. A Henry del Wood and Cecily 

 his wife had in 1314. granted a somewhat 

 larger estate to Richard de Chorlton, clerk; 

 ibid, ii, i;. 



'" James Bibby in 1444. complained 

 that Thurstan Rawlinson of Withington, 

 Robert Chorlton of Chorlton-with-Hardy 

 and Joan his wife, had broken into his 

 closes and houses at Reddish and taken 

 away corn and grass to the value of ;^io; 

 Pal. of Lane Plea R. 6, m. a. James 

 Bibby claimed by a grant from Hugh 

 Bradford and Margaret his wife, she being 

 daughter and heir of Thomas son of 

 Stephen Reddish ; Thomas received the 



property from one John Langley, The 

 defendants asserted that one Adam Davy 

 had been the owner, and that Ralph 

 father of Thurstan was his son and heir, 

 which Ralph had wrongfully made a grant 

 to the plaintiff ; ibid. R. 1 2, m. 8. 



In a further suit in 1573 Ralph Bibby, 

 clerk, claimed a messuage and lands 

 against Ralph Dicconson ; it was asserted 

 that the Margaret daughter of Thomas 

 Reddish above mentioned was the mother 

 of James Bibby, and that the succession 

 was : James — s, and h. Henry — s. and 

 h. Thomas -s. and h. Ralph (plaintiff) ; 

 ibid. R. 233, m. 14 d. 



88 < By an undated deed Thomas the 

 Hermit of Stockport and Margaret daugh- 

 ter of Robert de Standleye conveyed one 

 messuage and lands in Denton, certain 

 lands in Reddish called Egecroft and other 

 specified lands' ; Booker, Didshury, 226. 

 A William Stanley of Reddish in 1603 

 made Margaret his wife his executrix and 

 residuary legatee ; ibid. 227. The resi- 

 dence of the Stanleys was called Wood- 

 hall, and was in 1844 in possession of the 

 Rev. William Fox's heirs ; ibid. 201. 

 There was a suit about Woodhall in 

 1594; Ducatus Lane, iii, 308. 



Two members of the Stanley family 

 seem to have taken opposite sides in the 

 Civil War. Edward Stanley took part in 

 the defence of Manchester in 1642, when 

 the Earl of Derby besieged it, and died 

 of wounds he received there. He had 

 desired that his estate should be divided 



between his sisters, Anne Goddart and 

 Alice Hulme ; Booker, op. cit. Z27— 9. 

 On the other hand Henry Stanley of 

 Woodhall in 1648 desired to compound 

 for his sequestered estate ; he had been in 

 arms against the Parliament. The fine 

 was ^^46 ; Cal, of Com, for Compoundingy 

 iii, 1809. 



89 Misc. (Rec, Soc Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 140. 



40 Ibid, i, 152. 



*^ Land tax returns at Preston. 



<2 Booker, op. cit. 201. 



^ A full account of the township and 

 chapelry by Mr. H, T. Crofton has been 

 printed by the Chetham Society (new ser. 

 xlii, xlv, Ii) ; numerous maps, plans, and 

 views are given. Its stores have been 

 drawn upon for the present work. 



2 3,240 acres, including 75 of inland 

 water j Census Rep. 1901, 



8 Lcland about 1535 crossed the Mersey 

 * by a great bridge of timber called Cross- 

 ford Bridge.' Edmund Prestwich of Hulme 

 in 1577 left ^30 for this bridge ; Duchy 

 of Lane. Inq. p.m. xii, no. 4. Though 

 broken down in 1745 the Young Pre- 

 tender's army repaired it sufficiently to 

 use it ; Crofton, Stretford^ i, 12. 



Close by the ford was the mill, which 

 has long since disappeared. John the 

 Miller contributed to the subsidy in 

 1332; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc, 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 30, 



^ Opened in 1873. 



5 Ibid. 1862. 



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