SALTERSFORD
and
KETTLESHULME
From Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire, 1906
Part of Charlie Hulme's history site
Notes: Transcribed from
p.527 of Kelly's Directory of Cheshire, 1906. (The John Rylands
University Library, The University of Manchester).
SALTERSFORD
and
KETTLESHULME form a district Chapelry, comprising Saltersford ancient
chapelry
and Kettleshulme township, which was formed Nov. 4, 1864.
SALTERSFORD (or Jenkin Chapel) is a hamlet,
5½ miles
north-east from Macclesfield stations on the London and North Western
and North
Staffordshire Joint and Great Central railways, and is in Rainow
township, parish of Prestbury, Knutsford division of the county, petty
sessional division of Prestbury, hundred and union of Macclesfield,
county
court district of Chapel-en-le-Frith (Derbyshire), in the rural deanery
and
archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the diocese of Chester. The chapel of
St John
the Baptist, erected in 1733, is a small and plain building of stone,
consisting of chancel and nave and small western turret, containing one
bell:
there are 100 sittings. The register dates form the year [missing]. The
living
is a vicarage with Kettleshulme annexed, net yearly value £120,
with residence,
in the gift of the vicar of Prestbury, and held since 1879 by the Rev.
Herbert
Graham B.A. of New College, Oxford, who resides at Kettleshulme. This
place
gives the title of baron to the Stopford family, earls of Courtown. The
Earl of
Courtown is the principal landowner. The area is 2,700 acres; the
population of
the ecclesiastical parish in 1901 was 403. Letters through
Macclesfield; the
nearest money order & telegraph office is at Whaley Bridge,
4½ miles
distant.
KETTLESHULME is a township and village in a hilly
district
in the parish of Prestbury, but ecclesiastically annexed to
Saltersford, and is
on the road from Macclesfield to Chapel-en-le-Frith, about 3 miles
south-west
from Whaleybridge station on the Buxton
and Stockport branch of the London and North Western Railway,
and 7
north-east from Macclesfield. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in
1815, and
seating 200 persons. The charities for distribution in bread and money
are £2
13s. 4d yearly value. The candle wick manufacture is carried on here.
The Earl
of Derby K.G., P.C., G.C.B. is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
The soil
is clayey and poor; the subsoil is chiefly rock. The population in 1901
was
321; the acreage is 1,232; rateable value, £1,727.
Post Office.- William Hewitt, sub-postmaster.
Letters
through Stockport arrive at 7.50 a.m. & 6.p.m. No delivery on
Sundays.
Whaley Bridge is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 3
miles
distant.
Council School (mixed), built in 1856, for 108
children;
average attendance, 70; Miss Emma Pritchard, mist.
SALTERSFORD
Commercial
Brocklehurst, Wm. frmr, Charlshead
Etchells, Sara (Mrs) frmr, Hooley hey
Heathcote Jonathan, farmer, High bnk
Hibber John, farmer, Thursbach
Hill John, farmer, Higher house
Hill Mary (Mrs) farmer, Close bottom
Hine Fredk. Farmer, Green booth
Robinson Wm, farmer, Saltersford hall
Stanway George, farmer, The Bank
Turner Jesse, farmer, Buxter stoop
KETTLESHULME
Graham Rev. Herbert B.A. (vicar of
Saltersford-cum-Kettleshulme), Saltersford Vicarage
Goddard Nicholas, Brook house
Mackintosh Rev. Robert D.D. Kinrara
Sheldon Misses, Brook bottom
COMMERCIAL
Beard Joel, farmer, Wright’s
Bennett George, farmer, Redfearns
Bennett James, farmer & grocer, Kishfield
Bennett John, farmer, Brook bottom
Bennett Samuel, farmer, Greenbank
Boothby Geo. Herbt. Frmr, Broad carr
Boothby Martha (Mrs.) Swan inn
Broadhead Thos, farmer, Stocks
Broadhead Jas. ,farmer, Nether Carr
Brocklehurst Jn.,frmr, Spons bottom
Brocklehurst Thos. ,farmer, Needhams
Buckley Henry, farmer, Colehurst
Clarke Geo. , farmr, Hollow Cow hey
Collier James, farmer, Walker
Cotterill Frederick, farmer, Spout ho
Cotterill John, farmer, Kirkby clough & Brow
top
Cotterill Maria (Mrs.) , farmer,Tunstead knoll
Fidler George, farmer, Lapwing
Flynn John, farmer, Well house
Ford John, shopkeeper
Fox Adam, farmer, Priest
Goddard Nicholas, buider, joiner &
wheelwright, Brook
side
Hewitt Ebenezer, Bull’s Head P.H.
Hewitt Elizh (Mrs) , farmer, Gap ho
Hewitt Jas jun. frmr, Greenlow hth
Hewitt Joseph, farmer, Townfield
Hewitt William, iron & implement merchant,
grocer &
sub-postmaster
Hill Abraham, farmer, Thornycroft
Jackson Ann (Mrs), grocer
Jackson Edmund, farmer, Marl bank
Jackson Joseph Sutton, florist
Joule John, farmer, Ely fold
Kettleshulme Library (Arthur Jackson, sec)
Lomas Edward, farmer, Cooper shaw
Lomas George, farmer, assistant overseer &
clerk to
Parish Council, Bent hall
Lomas Edw. frmr. Dixons & Commons
Mason Arthur, farmer, Further carr, Five Lane ends
Olrenshaw John, farmer, Old Matts
Pearson Geo, farmer, Boggart house
Pennington John, frmr, Round knoll
Pennington David, shopkeeper
Read Peter William, farmer, Clayton Fold farm
Sheldon John & Sons, candle wick
manufacturers, Lumb
Hole mill
TurnerJohn, farmer, Stocks
Ward George, farmer, Green dale
Williamson Henry, farmer, Side end
Williamson Samuel, farmer, Clayton fold &
Brook bottom
Willott James, farmer, Dunge