SALFORD HUNDRED 



ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE 



viz. (i) Ashton Town, 1,373! acres, bounded on the 

 east by Cock Brook, and on the west by Ashton Moss, 

 with the hamlets or suburbs of Chamber Hills, Over- 

 steads, Lees Fields, Charlestown, Ryecroft, Moss Side, 

 and Guide Bridge ; (ii) Audenshaw, 2,589! acres, in 

 the west, containing, beside Audenshaw proper with 

 North Street, Hooley Hill, High Ash, Shepley, Little 

 Moss, Waterhouses, Woodhouses, Sunderland, Med- 

 lock Vale, and Buckley Hill ; (iii) Knott Lanes, on 

 the north, 2,4.17 acres, with Wood Park, Cross Bank, 

 Alt Edge, Taunton, Waterloo, Bardsley, Lees or Hey, 

 Mill Bottom, Birks, Rhodes Hill, Lanehead, High 

 Knolls, Alt, and Alt Hill ; (iv) Hartshead, on the east, 

 3,114 acres, with Staly bridge, Mossley, Hurst and 

 Higher Hurst, Smallshaw, Greenhurst, Hazelhurst, 

 Heyrod, Luzley, Souracre, and Ridge Hill. In 1 894, 



Stalybridge being added to Cheshire, the remainder 

 of the parish of Ashton was divided into the existing 

 townships of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Little 

 Moss, Waterloo, Hurst, Woodhouses, Bardsley, Alt, 

 Lees,' Hartshead, Cross Bank, and (part of) Mossley. 



Of these Ashton and Mossley are boroughs ; Auden- 

 shaw, Hurst, and Lees obtained local boards in 1874,* 

 1 86 1,' and 1859,' respectively, and became urban 

 districts in 1894, with councils of twelve members 

 each ; the rest of the townships, forming the rural 

 district of Limehurst, are governed by parish councils. 

 Waterhouses, described by Ben Brierley as ' Daisy 

 Nook,' has become a summer afternoon resort. 



In Audenshaw is a large reservoir belonging to 

 the Manchester Water Works. At Hartshead is the 

 Twarl Hill tithe-stone, where it is said tithes 



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ASHTON underL YNE 



(ed. 1868), i, 430. The document is 

 priated in full in Jas. Butterworth's Ati- 

 ton, 155-65- 



Much the «ame are the hamlets recorded 

 in the hearth-tax return of 1666. There 

 were 538 hearths liable, of which in Ashton 

 proper the houses of Richard Hurst and 

 Nicholas Walker had six each, of Rector 



Ellison, five ; at Audenshaw — Robert 

 Ashf^n, ten, and John Sandford, six ; at 

 Little Moss — William Bell, eight ; and 

 at Woodhouses — Samuel Jenkinson, seven. 

 No other dwelling had as many as six 

 hearths ; Subs, R. bdle. 250, no. 9. 



* For an account of Lees see Oldbam 



339 



Notes and Gleanings^ u, 5, 14, 24 ; also 

 ibid, i, 78. 



• Land. Gaz. 3 July 1874. 



^ Ibid. 19 Apr. i86i ; district extended 

 by 37 & 38 Vict. cap. i. 



^ Land. Gax. 30 Sept. 1859 ; the dis- 

 trict was called Lees with Crossbank. 



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