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Pages 16, 31, 80 to 85 from 'The English Parish' on the early history of the Peak District area covering Mellor; giving information including parish vocabulary, map of Anglo-Saxon England, the conquest and history of parishes in the Peak District,…

Email correspondence dated 2000 between Janet Packer from Scotland and Ann Hearle regarding the Freemans giving details of the family. Also two photographs, one of a group of people outside the Vicarage and the other of a choir outside an…

Three documents relating to Gilbert Radcliffe Inn Keeper of Mellor
1. 1680 photocopies of original will and inventory with typed transcript
2. 1721 photocopy of original will and inventory with typed transcript
3. Typed letter to Ann Hearle dated…

Hambleton Fold 1978 photograph from Marple Website
Two photocopies of photographs of Cheetham Hill Children's Holiday Home, Longshaw Clough, Mellor undated.
Part of a Tythe map for 1836.

Photocopy of original schedule of names of residents of Mellor and the number of hearths within the household for 1662 - 1663 held at the Public Records Office.

Documents relating to Hill Top Estate and Land in Marple belonging to the Worsley Family of Platt Hall.
Taken from Manchester Library & Theatres Dept:
1. Photocopy of handwritten schedule dated December 1801 valuation of property belonging to J C…

Nineteen page typed draft by Ann Hearle giving a 200 year history of the area and the property "The Blackberries" in Mellor.
Ann Hearle was a former resident of Blackberries

Six hand drawn plans and one photocopy by Tom Oldham, probably late 1970's showing front, back elevations, ground, first floor plans, cellar rooms and NE and SW ends of the building with measurements and descriptions of features.

Four typed display notices giving information on the Old Vicarage and the garden for the opening of the garden in aid of Cancer Research May 1992.

1. Letter from Gladys Martin 1998 giving memories and details of Brydges Farm where she lived in 1959.
2. Handwritten notes of Heyfield House, Station Road on left, past Springfield with high hedge built about 1806 on Heyfield.

Invoice for Tree ring sampling, analysis and report on the Old Vicarage, Mellor 2000 also ground floor and first floor plan showing the various ages from pre 18 century to modern.

Handwritten extract from Prescott's Manchester Journal dated 8th April 1780 giving details of the sale of the dwelling house of John Pickford, Innkeeper of Mellor with details of the property called Bradshaw Hall with outhousing and 36 acres of…

Single page document giving information on the roof details of Knowles Farm.
Produced as part of the vernacular building survey 2007-2007 carried out by Mellor Archaeological Society.

Photocopy of legal charge dated 1943 between Albert Stuart Knussen and George Birks Chell.
Miscellaneous correspondence and receipts :
1. Provision of installation of Telephone service 1946
2. Ernest Renshaw invoice for work carried out for…

Typed list of legal documents dated 1728 and 1782 from Thomas Chetham regarding rents, acreage and Tenants.
Photograph showing outbuildings at Mellor Hall

Letter from Cheshire Council Planning Department 1971 informing the resident of the Old Vicarage that as it now appears on the Department of the Environments List of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest as Grade III, it may be eligible for…

Handwritten 2 page document giving details of the baptism and burial references to Gilbert Radcliffe and the Radcliffe family held at the Parish Records dating 1638 - 1729.

Three hand written documents :
1. Photocopy of handwritten list headed 1686 giving names of residents.
2. Photocopy of two page handwritten list dated 1761 giving information on tenants of the properties surrounding the Old Vicarage (called Ale…

Three page article from Living Edge Magazine October 1999 entitled "Tea and Celts" reporting on the archaeological dig carried out in the gardens of the Old Vicarage, Mellor with photographs of archaeologist Graham Ayre-Morgan and Ann Hearle showing…

Lodes Cottage material
1. Five pages of typed information giving description, measurements with photographs of the outside and inside of Lode Cottage. Source unknown. Grid ref SD 976945, above Cow Hey Farm and below Glossop Road.
2. Photocopy of a…

Photocopy of Black Horse Agencies Burlings auction notice for Lower Birchenough Farm, Cobden Edge, Mellor.
A substantial stone built farmhouse with attached barn requiring renovation and 22 acres to be auction at the Devonshire Arms, Mellor 6th…

Research material into a datestone at Lower Bradshaw Farm (TTW 1799). including photographs and email correspondence with the owner of Lower Bradshaw Farm carried out by Hilary Atkinson after the owner contacted MLHS with enquiry with regard to…

Eleven page photocopy of a document produced by M.U.D.C under the Town & Country Planning Act 1962 giving list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
Also five page typed document giving suggestions of the buildings that should…

Several documents relating to the Old Vicarage, Mellor :
1. Hand drawn map on card showing Mellor Chapel in Glossop parish and surrounding buildings taken from a portion of a map dated 1585.
2. Hand drawn plan of the Old Vicarage from 1836…

Handwritten data & information for area around Greenhill
1. Land Valuations & maps dated 1832
2. Land Tax information : Tithe map/data 1936
3. 1849 Tithe Map Greenhill and various maps.
4. Ludworth Mill : information from Charter Rolls…