. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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- ; 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 o
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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- ; 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 ; Hulme Hall, the residenceof the family, was later known as Broadstone ; Other families appear from time to time as owning lands in the township, as those of Birches,'^ Bibby," and ; John Reddish was the only landowner contributing to the subsidy of 1541,''but in 1622 three are namedâClement Coke, Margaret Hulme, and Thomas ; 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 ; In 1844 John Hyde had an estate of 210 acres in the township, being about a seventh of the ; 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, 1212. 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
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