. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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, acres, with W
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. 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, 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 Stalybridge, Mossley, Hurst and Higher Hurst, Smallshaw, Greenhurst, Hazelhurst, Heyrod, Luzley, Souracre, and Ridge Hill. In 1894, 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,* 1861,' 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. INDEX MAP TO THE PARISH o p 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 pr
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