Hadfield, Derbyshire

Description
Hadfield, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Glossop parish and borough, Derbyshire. The village stands near the boundary with Cheshire, the river Etherow, and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 2 miles WNW of GIossop, and has a station on the railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1875. Population, 7343. Hadfield Hall, an old seat of the Hadfields, built in 1646, has now been converted into cottages. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £265. Patrons, trustees. The church is a building in the Gothic style, erected in 1874. There are several cotton mills, a Roman Catholic church, and Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Free Methodist chapels. The Roman Catholic church was built partly with the aid of £5000 from Lord Edward Howard. A convent was erected in 1887 near the church.