"glossop" a Glossop Travel Page by ayers_rock_where

Glossop as the territory which "includes Hadfield, Padfield, Dinting, Gamesley, Simmondley, Whitfield, Chunal, Charlesworth, Chisworth, Ludworth and the village of Glossop. Glossop is 'the ten townships', though Gamesley was never a township in its own right, but a satellite of either Charlesworth or Glossop. 'Glossop' has meant more than one place: the small settlement, 'Glott's hop', established c 650; a manor granted first to Basingwerk Abbey c 1157 called 'the Manor of Glossop', and containing the ten townships; a parish based on Glossop Church, established at about the same time as the Manor but more than twice as big, containing the ten townships of the Manor, plus nine others outside it, and called 'the Parish of Glossop', and 'the Borough of Glossop', created in 1866 and containing less than half the territory of the Manor. Today the name means less than ever. The Manor has gone, sold off in small lots in 1925. The Parish is a tiny ecclesiastical unit, and gives its name outside itself only to a rural deanery. Glott's hop is in retirement as 'Old Glossop'. And, as a final blow to separate identification, the Borough of Glossop disappeared in 1974, submerged in a new hybrid authority called the Borough of High Peak.".

as per usual ayers was relaxing looking out yonder lol

howard park october 2003