Tintwistle, Cheshire

Description
Tintwistle, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Mottram-in-Longdendale parish, Cheshire. The village stands 1 mile NW of Hadfield railway station, and 5 miles E of Stalybridge, occupies a bold acclivity rising from the river Etherow, and commanding a fine view. It has a post and money order office under Manchester; telegraph office, Hadfield. The township is partly also in Lancashire, and includes Arnfield, Micklehurst, and Woodhead. Acreage, 14,410; population, 3705. Tintwistle Hall is a stone mansion, which in 1853 replaced an older one of timber, the ancient residence of the De Burgh family, the lords of Longdendale. The reservoirs of the Manchester waterworks have capacity for nearly 4,000,000,000 gallons. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1838, and includes the township of Hollingworth; population, 4564. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value. £300 with residence. The church was built in 1837. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels, and a young men's institute.