The memorial is now a grade 1 listed building, which was commissioned in its entirety by Lord Ashton at a cost of £87,000, roughly 8.4 million in …
[53], Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the early 12th century, Ashton anciently constituted a "single parish-township", but was divided into four divisions (sometimes each styled townships): Ashton Town, Audenshaw, Hartshead, and Knott Lanes. [109][121] The Huddersfield Narrow Canal was built between 1794 and 1811, to enable cross-Pennine trade between Manchester and Kingston upon Hull; the cost of construction was £400,000.
[44] The Ashton Poor Law Union was established in 1837 and covered most of what is now Tameside. [57], Under the Local Government Act 1972, the town's borough status was abolished, and Ashton has, since 1 April 1974, formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.
[114] In 2004 The Witchwood came under threat when the area was being redeveloped, but was saved from demolition after a campaign by locals and led by Tom Hingley, drawing support from musicians such as Bert Jansch, The Fall, and The Chameleons.
[137] Tameside College also provides opportunities for further education and operates in Ashton-under-Lyne, Droylsden, and Hyde.
His introduction of Anglo-Catholic worship caused riots on Gerard Street and he was initially evicted from the town by a mob of miners. [2], It then passed by marriage to the Butlers of Radcliffe and from them to the Gerards of Bromley. Today the town is now served by Garswood and Bryn stations, both on the line between Wigan North Western and Liverpool Lime Street. The church was built with the official title of Cave-Browne Protestant Institute (Christchurch). This is scheduled to open in late 2020. It later became part of Tameside General Hospital.
[22] The town was granted a Royal Charter in 1414, which allowed it to hold a fair twice a year, and a market on every Monday,[23][24] making the settlement a market town. Commissioned by the Ashton War Memorial Committee, the statue was sculpted between 1919 and 1922 by John Ashton Floyd, and unveiled on 16 September 1922 by General Sir Ian Hamilton.[116]. In 2018, a large new development opened in Ashton town centre including a new college campus for Tameside College, new council offices and a library. [1], In 1827, police commissioners were established for Ashton Town, tasked with bringing about social and economic improvement.
Page of Honour to Henry VI, Knight-Marshall of England, Lieut. Park Parade station was on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, which was founded in 1836 with the purpose of building a line linking Manchester and Sheffield.
Towards the end of the 19th century, many Turnpike Trusts were wound up as they were superseded by local government; the last in Tameside to close was the Ashton-under-Lyne to Salters Brook road in 1884. [3][4] This means that Ashton probably became a settlement some time after the Romans left Britain in the 5th century. In 1482, he was made Knight-Banneret on the field of battle at Hattonfield in Scotland.
[95] Pennine Care NHS Trust relocated its headquarters to the St Petersfield area in 2006. The gatehouse has a segmented arch with Doric columns. A line from Stalybridge to Ashton-under-Lyne was opened in 1903 and operated by the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley & Dukinfield Tramways & Electricity Board. After the 2012 local elections, all twelve seats were held by Labour councillors. The site now occupied by Byrchall and St Edmund Arrowsmith high schools was the location of a Second World War P.O.W.
By the 19th century Park Lane was only one of nine non-conformist chapels in the area. [109][121], The advent of the railways in the 19th century signalled the decline of the canal system. At least 41 people died and about 100 were injured. In 1885, they were the first winners of the Manchester Senior Cup, beating Newton Heath (who later became Manchester United) in the final. In the medieval period, farming was important in Ashton, particularly arable farming. [124][125] Known originally as Ashton, it was renamed Ashton (Charlestown) in 1874. From 1825, a private company was responsible for piping water from reservoirs, but there were still many homes without proper drainage or water supply.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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Redhead, Norman, in: Hartwell, Hyde and Pevsner (2004), p. 18. It continued to expand until the cotton famine of 1861–1865, after which the industry remained steady until it collapsed after the overseas markets shut down in the 1920s.
St Thomas' Church of England parish church on Warrington Road has ancient origins although the present building was completed in 1893. The Booth-Greys then held the manor until the 19th century;[30] their patronage, despite being absentee lords, was probably the stimulus for Ashton's growth of a large-scale domestic-based textile industry in the 17th century.
Accounts dated 1626 highlight that Humphrey Chetham had dealings with clothworkers in Ashton.
[26] Afterwards the effigy would be hung up, shot, and set on fire, before being torn apart and thrown into the crowd. Garswood Hall) remained productive until the 1950s.[4].
Legend claims it was built in a single night in 869 or 870 as a defence against Viking invaders.
It has been used several times as a filming location for Coronation Street, including a scene where the character Richard Hillman drove into the canal.
The Oldham, Ashton and Hyde Electric Tramway Company, founded in 1899, operated 13 km (8 mi) of tram lines with electric tramcars. The rest of the population was made up of clerical workers and skilled manual workers.[69]. In the late 19th century, the district was described by one observer as having "extensive collieries, cotton mills and potteries", and famed for the manufacture of "hinges, locks, files and nails". Ashton-in-Makerfield has three secondary schools: Cansfield High School; Byrchall High School and St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School. No young persons think of pursuing such an occupation. [35] On Christmas Day 1826, workers in the town formed the Ashton Unity, a sickness and benefits society that was later renamed the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds. [40] A donation from Hugh Mason funded the construction of the baths built in 1870–1871.
Industrial processes had, however, polluted the river and the wells could not sustain a rapidly expanding population.
As of the 2001 UK census, 68.5% of Ashton residents reported themselves as being Christian, 6.1% Muslim, 5.0% Hindu, and 0.2% Buddhist. Williamson was High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1885 and on his elevation to the peerage took his title Baron Ashton of Ashton. Ashton became a part of the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in 1974. In the mid-20th century, imports of cheaper foreign goods led to the decline of Ashton's heavy industries but the town has continued to thrive as a centre of commerce[5] and Ashton Market is one of the largest outdoor markets in the United Kingdom. Statutory emergency fire and rescue service is provided by the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, which has one station on Slate Lane. In 1698 the estate was acquired by James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, on his second marriage to the Gerard heiress Elizabeth Gerard. [41] Mason estimated that establishing the settlement cost him around £10,000 and would require a further £1,000 a year to maintain (about £600,000 and £60,000 respectively as of 2020), and that its annual mortality rate was significantly lower than in the rest of the town.
[27] The first recorded occurrence of the event was in 1795, although the tradition may be older;[28] it continued into the 1830s.
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