Catalogue description Deeds, estate papers and correspondence of the E.H. Moss Trust

DDX 228/1-11 Deeds relating to Crowley Estate near Oldham, 1684-1885

DDX 228/12-33 Deeds relating to the de Rothwell estate 1792-1880

DDX 228/34-41 Deeds relating to early title of The Plough Inn 1834-1873

DDX 228/42-83 Deeds relating to property part of Wall Hill Estate 1775-1849

DDX 228/84-94 Deeds relating to freehold land at Skelter Mill, Saddleworth and Oldham 1804-1871

DDX 228/95-107 Deeds relating to land at Strines, Saddleworth 1806-1856

DDX 228/108-111 Deeds relating to land at Saddleworth 1814-1851

DDX 228/112-121 Deeds relating to land at Saddleworth 1794-1865

DDX 228/122-128 Deeds relating to land at Wade Hill, Saddleworth 1717-1822

DDX 228/129-145 Deeds relating to land at Saddleworth 1657-1814

DDX 228/146-157 Papers relating to a foreclosure action (on land at Saddleworth) Moss v. Buckley 1849-1851

DDX 228/158-179 Deeds relating to land at Alt, Ashton under Lyne 1707-185

DDX 228/180-190 Deeds relating to land at Crossbank, Ashton under Lyne 1735-1795

DDX 228/191-197 Deeds relating to Elkanah Moss's marriage settlement 1846-1871

DDX 228/198-201 Deeds relating to Featherstall Turnpike Road 1806-1849

DDX 228/202-228 Deeds relating to land at Saddleworth 1773-1903

DDX 228/229-255 Miscellaneous papers including correspondence concerning Wall Hill property 1867-1919

DDX 228/256-266 Deeds relating to land at Saddleworth 1889-1906

DDX 228/267-268 Deeds relating to land at Oldham 1909-1918

DDX 228/269/1-11 Correspondence concerning Wall Mill Chimney Dobcross, Saddleworth 1905

DDX 228/271-272 Correspondence and miscellanea concerning the purchase of Greenacres Congregational Church Recreational Ground, Paulden, 1913-1924

Those interested in this area may find the following printed works of interest:

Barnes, B., Buckley, P.M., Hunt, J.M. and Petford A.J., eds., Saddleworth Surveyed Selected Maps of the Township, Saddleworth Historical Society, 1983

Directories: The West Riding of Yorkshire, volume 2, 1838, p. 334 Baines, Edward, History, Directory and Gazeteer of County of York, 1822, p. 262

These items are available for consultation in the search room of the Lancashire Record Office reference library.

E H Moss Trust

Deposited by Alfred W. Chambers, solicitor, Tarporley, Cheshire

10 September 1952

Acc. 908

• Saddleworth, Yorkshire

The deeds and papers in this collection relate principally to estates in Saddleworth and other parts of the former West Riding of Yorkshire, Middlewich, Stockport, Knutsford and other areas of the County of Cheshire and Manchester, Ashton-under-lyne, Oldham, and surrounding areas, formerly part of the County of Lancashire. The area called Saddleworth merits some explanation because of its complex administrative history.

Saddleworth now forms part of Greater Manchester County but formerly it was the township and parochial chapelry of Saddleworth-cum-Quick, which took its name from the hamlet of Saddleworth situated about 5 miles from Oldham. Saddleworth was a chapelry within the large Lancashire parish of Rochdale but for secular purposes it was a township within the West Riding Wapentake hundred or division of a shire of Agbrigg. In comparison with many other northern townships, it was divided into four administrative divisions called meres: Friar-mere, Lord's-mere, Quick-mere and Shaw-mere. In 1869 Saddleworth was elevated to parish status and for civil purposes was considered a distinct parish still answerable to the Wapentake of Agbrigg in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In ecclesiastical matters it continued to answer to Rochdale.

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