SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



1868 Dudley Hart, M.A. (T.C.D.) 



1903 James Peter Rountree, M.A. (T.C.D.) 



St. Bride's, Old TrafFord, consecrated in 1878, is 

 in the patronage of trustees ;" All Saints, 1885, is in 

 the Bishop of Manchester's gift. At Old Trafford 

 there are also St. Thomas's, the chapel of the Blind 

 Asylum," and St. Hilda's, consecrated in 1904, with 

 the districts of St. Cuthbert and St. John, not yet 

 having permanent churches ; the Crown and the 

 Bishop of Manchester present alternately to these 

 benefices ; and also to the new district of St. Peter, 

 Stretford. 



There was in 1 7 1 8 only a private school, without 

 endowment. Soon afterwards the township shared in 

 the benefaction of Ann Hinde." 



The Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive 

 Methodists each have churches at Stretford and Old 

 TrafFord ; and the Independent Methodists have one 

 at the former place.'* The Baptists also have a church 

 at Stretford. The Congregationalists have churches 

 at Stretford and Old TrafFord " ; in the latter part of 

 the township there is also a Welsh Congregational 

 chapel. 



The Unitarian Free church, begun in Moss Side 

 in 1887, has from 1901 had its place of worship 

 within Stretford township. 



Although from the time of Sir Cecil TrafFord, the 

 chief resident family, as well as some minor ones, pro- 

 fessed the ancient faith," no chapel was erected in the 

 township'* until 1859, when a temporary one was 

 opened. This was followed by St. Anne's in 1863 ; 

 it was consecrated in 1867." St. Alphonsus's, Brooks' 

 Bar, was opened in 1904.'* 



HULME 



Overholm and Noranholm, 1226 ; Hulm, 1 3 10. 



The township of Hulme is bounded on the north, 

 west, and south, in the main, by the Medlock, Irwell, 

 and Cornbrook respectively. It has an area of 

 477J acres ' and is wholly urban. There was a 

 population of 66,916 in 190 1. 



The principal thoroughfare is the Chester Road, 

 starting at Knott Mill and proceeding south-west to 

 Stretford.' It is on the line of the old Roman road 

 to Chester. Almost parallel to it are City Road, 

 from Gaythorn to Stretford, and Stretford Road from 

 Ardwick to Stretford. Across these runs Jackson 



Street, and there are, of course, a multitude of minor 

 streets intersecting each other. Apart from Hulme 

 Hall, which stood beside the Irwell, the earliest dwell- 

 ing-houses ' seem to have been erected on the south 

 side of Chester Road, streets being planned there as 

 early as 1793 and a considerable suburb existing in 

 1830. 



The Bridgewater Canal has its terminus in Hulme 

 at the Medlock, where there are quays, docks, and 

 warehouses. The Cheshire Lines railway and the 

 Manchester South Junction and Altrincham railway 

 run side by side through the township near the Irwell. 

 The district is served by the Manchester electric 

 tramways. 



The public buildings include the cavalry barracks 

 in City Road, first erected in 1799; a town hall in 

 Stretford Road, built in 1865, a public library being 

 added next year ; baths, 1860-5 ; and the Gay- 

 thorn gas works, erected in 1825-6 ; also a drill-hall. 

 A dispensary was founded in 1 83 1. * 



The industries are varied, including iron works, 

 cotton miUs, saw mills, and printing works. 



Hulme obtained a Police Act in 1824. It was 

 included within the municipal borough of Manchester 

 in 1838 by the first charter, and then divided into 

 two wards — St. George's on the west and Medlock 

 Street on the east. In 1 896 its independent existence 

 ceased, it being merged in the new township of South 

 Manchester. 



The old Chorlton Union Workhouse, built about 

 1840, stood in Stretford Road, opposite Holy Trinity 

 Church. 



The early descent of HULME is ob- 

 MJNOR scured by the number of places of this 

 name in South Manchester and Eccles, 

 and by its being included either in Salford or in 

 Manchester. It seems clear that Jordan, Dean of 

 Manchester, in the 12th century held it of the 

 manor of Salford in thegnage by a rent of 5/.,* 

 and that in 1 2 1 2 Henry de Chetham held it by the 

 same service, it being assessed as four oxgangs of 

 land.' The same tenure is alleged in the later in- 

 quisitions touching the manor. On the other hand 

 Hulme is included within the boundary of the manor 

 of Manchester in the survey of 1320,* at which time 

 Robert de Ashton held a moiety of the manor of 

 Hulme by Alport by a rent of 5/. at the four terms, 

 payable to the lord of Manchester.' It seems pos- 

 sible, therefore, that the Grelleys had secured the 



'" For district see Lond. Gaz. 1 7 May 

 1879. It was an offshoot of St. Mar- 

 garet's, Whalley Range, a school church 

 having been built in 1863 ; Crofton, op. 

 cit. iii, 49. 



'' For district see Lond. Gax. 1 3 Aug, 

 i8;8 ; and Crofton, op. cit. iii, 6z. The 

 gift of the chapel to the Bishop of Man- 

 chester was decided to be a breach of the 

 trusts, but the order creating a district 

 does not appear to have been rescinded. 



" Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 96; above p. 201, 



'' The Wesleyans held services in Stret- 

 ford as early as 18 14, and then or soon 

 afterwards used a tent set up once a week. 

 In spite of the opposition of Sir Thomas 

 de TrafFord, who refused to sell any land, a 

 site was secured and a chapel built in 1 844. 

 The present church was built in 1862. 



'■* The first Congregational chapel, 

 built in 1 840, was the outcome of open- 

 air preaching, begun as early as 1825. The 

 present church was built ini 861. Chorlton 



Road Church, opened in the same year, 

 has replaced the old Cannon Street Chapel 

 in Manchester ; it is famed as the scene 

 of Dr. J. A. Macfadyen's labours ; he died 

 in 1889; Nightingale, Latia. Nonconf. 

 V, 127-32. 



^^ The above-named John Holker was 

 one of them. A local story in Crofton's 

 Stretford (iii, 213) illustrates the hardships 

 of a * Papist's ' life during the centuries of 

 proscription ; there was *no law ' for them, 

 and they might be ill-treated at pleasure. 

 For their insignificant numbers see ibid. 

 iii, 52. 



'5 The mission was served from Traf- 

 ford Hall in the adjacent township. 



W Ibid, iii, 53. 



^ Brooks' Bar, so called from Samuel 

 Brooks the banker, who owned the Whal- 

 ley Range estate, was formerly a toll bar 5 

 Crofton, Old Moss Side, 30. 



^ 477 acres ; Census Rep. 1901, 



' The older road remains, but in 1 841 



335 



the Bridgewater Viaduct over the Med- 

 lock waa opened, providing a shorter and 

 more direct way from Deansgate to Ches- 

 ter Road. 



^ The hearths liable to the tax in 1666 

 numbered only 34^ of which Hulme Hall 

 had 10 ; Subs, R. bdle. 250, no. 9, 



^ Lanes, Inq, and Extents (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 137. It is called 

 * Overholm and Noranholm,' Jordan, 

 the Dean of Manchester, was living in 

 1177 ; Farrcr, Lanes, Pipe R, 38. 



* Lanes, Inq. and ExtentSy i, 70. 



^ Mamecestre (Chet. Soc), ii, 277 ; the 

 boundary of the manor went along the 

 Cornbrook between the manor of Hu'me 

 by Alport and Trafford, as far as the 

 Irwell. 



"i Ibid, ii, 290 ; the other moiety of the 

 manor is not mentioned, but it would seem 

 that the whole service due was charged on 

 Robert de Ashton, who also held two ox- 

 gangs of land ia Denton for life. 



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