Alderley Edge is a village
and civil parish within the unitary
authority of Cheshire East and the
ceremonial county of Cheshire
, England
.
According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of
4,409.
Alderley
Edge lies some to the northwest of Macclesfield
and south of Manchester
. It is situated at the base of a steep and
thickly wooded sandstone ridge - the Edge, which is the area's
chief topographical feature.
The Edge overlooks the Cheshire Plain
.
Alderley Edge is famous for its perceived affluence, celebrities
and expensive houses.
History
The area around Alderley Edge provides proof of occupation since
the
Mesolithic period with flint
implements being found along the line of the sandstone outcrop.
Evidence
for copper mining in the Bronze Age has
also been discovered to the south of the area, and in 1995 members
of the Derbyshire Caving Club
discovered a hoard of 564 Roman coins
(now in the Manchester
Museum
) dating from AD 317 to AD 336. There are to date 13
recorded sites on the County Sites and Monuments Record (CSMR)
in the settled area of Alderley Edge and 28 in Nether Alderley
, with a further 44 along the Edge
itself.
Early medieval settlements are recorded at Nether Alderley, to the
south of Alderley Edge.
The first written evidence of Alderley Edge,
known then as 'Chorlegh' (later spelt as 'Chorley
') appeared in the 13th century, with the likely
derivation coming from ceorl and leah, meaning a peasants'
clearing. Although it is not mentioned in the
Domesday Book, it is included in a charter of
c.1280. The name 'Alderley' first appears in 1086 as 'Aldredelie'.
Several versions of the origin are known, one says it originated
from 'Aldred 'and 'leah' meaning 'Aldred's Clearing'. Another says
it is most likely that the name Alderley came from
Anglo-Saxon 'Alðrȳðelēah' meaning "the
meadow or woodland clearing of a woman called 'Alðrȳð'.
In the 13th century and during the
Middle
Ages, the area comprised estates that had many different
owners, since the 15th century, most of them have belonged to the
de Trafford family.
The
principal manors being based on the 14th century Chorley Old
Hall
, which lies to the south-west of Alderley Edge, and
the Old Hall, at Nether Alderley, a 16th century building which was
burnt down in 1779. The economies of both Chorley and Nether
Alderley were dominated by agriculture with a market charter being
granted at Nether Alderley in c.1253.
The Nether
Alderley corn mill
dates back to 1391, although the present timber
structure is only 16th century. The millpond was adapted to
form the moat, which surrounded the Old Hall, the home of the
Stanley family (
Baron Stanley of Alderley). The
corn mill continued to be worked until 1939 when
Lord Stanley was forced to sell it, along with
the rest of his estate, to meet the cost of death duties. In the
1950s the
National Trust bought the site and have since restored the
building and opened it to the public.
Cheshire had its own system of taxes in the medieval period, the
Mize, and in the records for 1405 Chorley was assessed at 20s 0d
and Nether Alderley at 27s 0d.
Lead and copper mining on the Edge is documented in the late 17th
and 18th centuries. After the destruction of the Old Hall in the
late 18th century, the Stanley family relocated to Park House on
the southern edge of
Alderley Park,
and both house and park were subsequently much extended. Throughout
the 19th century Nether Alderley remained under the control of the
Stanleys and the lack of development pressure meant that the
dispersed medieval settlement pattern was retained.
In 1830 Chorley
consisted of only a few cottages, the De Trafford Arms Inn, a toll
bar, and a smithy, straggling along the Congleton
to Manchester Road.
The
coming of the railway in 1842 with the construction of the Stockport
to Crewe
section of
the main Manchester
and Birmingham Railway changed all this. The
Manchester and Birmingham
Railway Company built the line through Chorley, offering free
season tickets for 20 years to Manchester businessmen who built
houses with a rateable value of more than £50 within a mile of the
station. This 'season ticket' was in the form of a small silver
oval which could be worn on a watch chain.
The railway also gave Alderley Edge its current name.
As the railway
network expanded and travel became easier, the railway company did
not want its station called Chorley any more because of the
possible confusion with Chorley
in Lancashire
. So, in 1880 they renamed it Alderley
Edge station
against much opposition, taking the old name for
the village and the name of the sandstone escarpment already known
as The Edge. The name Chorley is retained by the civil
parish to the northwest of Alderley Edge.
Following the construction of the railway, the local landowner,
Sir Humphrey de Trafford,
of Chorley Hall, laid out an extensive estate of new roads and new
houses were incrementally added, filling-in most of the available
sites by 1910. Of these, nine are now listed grade II. The area
boundary largely reflects de Trafford's original estate boundaries.
Also because of the railway, Alderley became a popular place to
visit and the railway company popularised day trips and cheap
excursions to the village.
This period also saw the appearance of buildings which are now
landmarks.
St Philip's Church
with its 175ft spire was built in 1853 and the
village primary school a year later known as Alderley Edge
Community Primary School [78554]. Two all girls schools were opened, St
Hilary's in 1876 and Mount Carmel in 1945, which then merged in
1999 to form
Alderley
Edge School for Girls. The boy's school,
The Ryleys, was opened in 1877. The Mission Hall
(later known as The Institute) was built as a temperance hall for
the recreation of the 'lower classes' by the wealthier residents in
1878. The Methodist Church in Chapel Road was built ten years after
St Philip's.
The area is notable for its heavily wooded streets and substantial
Victorian villas set in spacious,
well-planted gardens. The first villa was constructed in the early
1840s and by 1850 thirty "handsome residences" had been erected,
some of them in what is now the
Alderley Edge Conservation
Area. The cotton barons from Manchester built their mansions
here and now they are changing hands for several million pounds.
The village itself winds up a high street bristling with chic
restaurants, designer shops and speciality food shops. Around the
village, winding lanes are covered in their original sandstone
setts and front boundary walls are usually built from the same
local sandstone. The buildings are very varied in style with
examples of
Tudor,
Italian,
neo-Georgian and
Arts and Crafts Movement designs.
The wide
range of materials used reflects this somewhat eclectic mix of
styles, and include stone, brick (several colours) smooth render or
roughcast for the walls, and Welsh
slate or
clay tiles for the roofs.
The growth of Alderley Edge is recorded in the census returns; with
the population rising from 561 in 1841 to 2856 in 1902 (the return
for Nether Alderley shows a drop from 679 to 522 within the same
period). There was no church in Chorley until 1852, when the larger
expansion of the town in the demanded enlarged accommodation, but
St Mary's Church in Nether Alderley retains some 14th century work
including a font.
The
First
Edition Ordnance Survey
map of 1871
therefore shows "Chorley" (as it still was) with the new Queen's
Hotel next to the station, new shops and terraced houses along
London Road, and a Post Office at the
town centre, where Macclesfield Road meets Alderley Road. To
the north are wooded areas with detached villas, but to the east is
a much larger area, roughly approximating with the modern
conservation area, where curving roads divide generous wooded
plots, usually with its own house, although some plots remained
undeveloped until much later. Of interest is the use of the names
"Brickfield" and "Brick kiln" on a site to the north-east of
Alderley Edge, suggesting a source for the local bricks.
The 1899
map shows a similar footprint but it is much easier to make out the
individual villas and their names – Holybank, Ashfield, The Larches
etc. Also very evident on this map are the remains
of the old mines towards and within Windmill Wood, immediately to the
southeast. In the 20th century, Alderley Edge continued to
expand with much
Post-War housing
around the northeastern and western edges. Nether Alderley has
remained relatively unchanged, apart from the sale of Alderley Park
to
Astra Zeneca (previously ICI,
Imperial Chemical
Industries), which now has a large research establishment based
on
Alderley Hall.
Administrative History
From
medieval times the area was part of the Chorley township of the ancient parish of
Wilmslow
in the Macclesfield Hundred
of Cheshire. Under the
Poor Law Amendment Act 1866
Chorley became a civil parish in its own right.
Alderley
Edge civil parish was created on 31 December 1894 from part of
Chorley civil parish. Along with
Bollinfee civil parish it formed
Alderley Edge Urban District.
In 1974
it became a civil parish in the new non-metropolitan district of
Macclesfield
. Since 1 April 2009 it has been part of the
unitary authority of
Cheshire
East.
Boundary Changes
The civil parish was enlarged on 30 September by gaining a further
part of
Chorley.
On 1 October 1910 it was enlarged by gaining
part of Nether
Alderley civil
parish. It was further enlarged by on 1 April 1936
by the transfer of a further 2 acres from Chorley and 19
acres from Wilmslow civil parish and by gaining 112 acres on the
abolition of Bollinfee civil parish.
Politics
The Edge Association
The Edge Association is a local residents' group which campaigns on
matters relevant to Alderley Edge.
Economy
As of the 2001 UK census, the Alderley Edge ward had a possible
workforce of approximately 2157 people. The economic activity of
residents in the Alderley Edge electoral ward was 36.9% in
full-time employment, 10.2% in part-time employment, 29.3%
self-employed, 1.7% unemployed, 1.4% students with jobs, 3.5%
students without jobs, 19.3% retired, 7.5% looking after home or
family, 2.8% permanently sick or disabled and 2.0% economically
inactive for other reasons. Alderley Edge has a very high rate of
self employment (29.3%) compared with rest of the Macclesfield
borough (22.7%) and England (16.6%). Alderley Edge also has low
rates of unemployment (1.7%) compared with the rest of the
Macclesfield borough (2.0%) and England (3.3%). The
Office for National
Statistics estimated that during the period of April 2001 to
March 2002 the average gross weekly income of households in
Alderley Edge was £720 (£37,440 per year).
Notable people
Notable people from Alderley Edge include:
The area is the home of a number of affluent people, many of whom
are multi-millionaires, such as football players, pop stars and
business people, living on roads such as Beechfield Road, Whitebarn
Road, Mottram Road and the roads just off Macclesfield Road. These
include
Manchester United players
Rio Ferdinand,
Cristiano Ronaldo,
Mikaël Silvestre (now Arsenal) and
Michael Carrick, as well as
Liverpool (now Tottenham) star
Peter Crouch, musicians
Bernard Sumner and
Peter Hook.
A number of Coronation Street
actors, including Denise Welch and Richard Fleeshman also live in the
village. Other famous members of the community include
property entrepreneur Peter Jones ('Jones Homes' and 'The Emerson
Group') and TV presenter and voice-over artist
Stuart Hall.
Landmarks
The Edge
The view over the Cheshire Plain from
Castle Rock
The Edge itself is a wide
red sandstone escarpment situated above the village of
Alderley.
An edge is a name used as a
descriptive term for high land in Cheshire and adjacent counties,
such as in Wenlock
Edge
and Blackstone Edge
. The Edge at Alderley is a ridge of land
which separates a narrow and short valley from the higher ground of
south east Cheshire and Derbyshire
. It rises gradually from the town of
Macclesfield, until, at a distance of 7 or 8 kilometres, it
terminates abruptly, having reached a height of nearly 215 metres
above sea level, and 110 metres above the Cheshire Plain below it.
It was formed partly by the weathering of resistant sandstone which
lies on top of a softer sandstone, and partly by faulting of the
rocks. The scarp or slope is repeated eight times by faults of up
to 200 metres which has thrown down blocks of sandstone west to
Alderley and east to the village of
Kirkleyditch ( ). The northern side of the Edge
is shaped like a
horse shoe or
hough (pronounced 'huff'), as this
type of ridge is called in Cheshire. The Edge also marks the line
of a hamlet of scattered houses called "
The
Hough" which descend towards Alderley village.
Today, Alderley Edge is owned by the
National Trust and maintained as a public
access wooded area. It has been designated a
Site of Special Scientific
Interest for its unique geology.
The Edge is a popular
destination for day trippers from Manchester and the nearby towns
of Wilmslow and Macclesfield. The whole woodland is
riddled with old mine workings and relics of by-gone times.
Views
The view from Stormy Point over to the Pennines
From its
highest point, the Edge affords panoramic views across Cheshire and
the Peak
District
and walking
paths through the property, as well as one to nearby National Trust
property Hare
Hill
. From the Edge, the Cheshire Plain, can be seen extending from the area of Macclesfield
Forest
on the south east side with its with undulating
land and woods, towards the extreme easterly point of the Derbyshire peaks, and northerly to Manchester and Blackstone Edge in Yorkshire
.
Until trees were planted at the Edge (1745-1755), visitors to the
Edge could see a full 360° panorama of the country around; today
the view from the Edge itself is limited to the northerly and
easterly directions.
Trees now obscure the views in other
directions, including views of the Wrekin
in Shropshire
to the south; The Cloud
near Bosley
and
Mow
Cop
(where the Cheshire Plain meets the Peckforton
Hills
, Beeston
Castle
, and the Delamere Forest
) to the south west; and west to the mountains of
North
Wales
.
History
The Edge was described as a dreary common till the year 1779, when
it was enclosed together with all the other waste lands of
Alderley. Some hundreds of
Scotch firs
were planted on the highest points by
Sir James and
Sir Edward Stanley (
Baron Stanley of Alderley),
between the years 1745 and 1755, before that time, it does not
appear that a single tree grew on it.
In 1882,
George Ormerod in his book The
History of Cheshire described Alderley Edge as "an abrupt and
elevated ridge, formerly the site of a Beacon, which bears the appearance of having been
detached by some great convulsion of nature from the range of the
Macclesfield hills, as Helsby
and
Beeston
seem to have been from those of Delamere and Peckforton
. Near the summit, "cobalt ore, lead, and
copper have been got in small quantities. The sides are varied with
cultivated "land, wood, and rock; and the entire mass presents a
striking object to all the surrounding district, over which it
commands a most extensive prospect."
Alderley Edge Mines
Passage in West Mine
The escarpment has long been a site of
copper
mining. Archaeological evidence indicates
that mining took place here during
Roman times and the
Bronze Age, and written records show that mining
continued here from the 1690s up to the 1920s.
Today, the mines are accessible to the public twice a year, during
events organised by the
Derbyshire Caving Club.
Pre-history
Hammerstones recorded by Charles
Roeder
In the nineteenth century, crudely shaped stones were found in the
bottom of old workings and were thought to be
Bronze Age hammer stones (Boyd Dawkins, 1876). At
the same time, a wooden shovel was found and recorded in 1878.
Roeder and Graves wrote two papers in the early 1900s (Roeder, 1902
and Roeder and Graves, 1905) about the findings in 1878 and added
to the theory of Bronze Age working that there was a possibility of
Roman mining. The picture was transformed when in 1993 the wooden
shovel was rediscovered by Alan Garner and carbon-dated to around
1780 BC (Garner et al., 1994). Subsequently, the Alderley Edge
Landscape Project was set up and excavation around Engine Vein
revealed what are believed to be Bronze Age smelting hearths dating
to around 2000 BC (Timberlake and Prag, 2005).
Roman mining was considered unlikely until the finding in 1995 of a
4th century Roman coin hoard in an abandoned shaft at
Engine Vein. This dated the shaft to the 4th
century or earlier and its regularity and depth suggested that the
Romans may well have worked it. An archaeological excavation was
undertaken by DCC members supervised by the Alderley Edge Landscape
Project archaeologists and, at the bottom, timbers were revealed
which were carbon-dated to the last century BC. Given that they
were heartwood from cut timbers, the dating cannot be precise and
the shaft is now believed to be Roman in origin.
The passage from the
shaft to the Vein was driven from the direction of the shaft and
resembles other Roman workings in the United Kingdom
, such as at Dolaucothi.
Between the Roman working and 1690, there is scant evidence of
mining except a reference to "mine holes" (reference in AELPHER
archive which is currently inaccessible - May 2007) which cannot be
relied on as evidence of mining in progress.
17th and 18th centuries
From 1693 (Anon, 1696) to the mid-1800s, various people are
reported to have explored the Edge for copper and work was done at
Saddlebole, Stormy Point, Engine Vein and Brinlow (Stanley, 1843).
It is likely that the near-surface sections of Wood Mine were
investigated during this period.
One operator of note was Charles Roe of Macclesfield who worked the mines
from 1758 to 1768 before moving over to Anglesey on the discovery
of major deposits of copper at Parys Mountain
(Bentley Smith, 2005).
Early 19th century
Coffin level in Engine Vein
Apart from Roe, the history of working up to 1857 is patchy. The
best recorded period was between about 1805 and 1815 when a company
of local men including a Derbyshire miner, James Ashton, tried to
exploit the mines for lead. During the course of their work, they
identified the presence of
cobalt which was
in demand during the
Napoleonic
blockade of supplies (Bakewell, 1811). Evidence in the field
points to the working of a series of mines on a north-south fault
running from Saddlebole to Findlow Hill Wood. Some parts of Engine
Vein and possibly West Mine appear to have been excavated at this
time. The work ended when the price of cobalt fell. The leases for
the period tell the story for Ashton who sacrificed his salary for
his share in the company, but even lost this when the company
called for more capital than he could provide — and yet he was the
man down the mine doing the work (Anon, 1808).
Late 19th century
In 1857, a Cornish man, James Michell, started work at West Mine
and moved on in the 1860s to Wood Mine and Engine Vein. His company
lasted 21 years (the length of the lease) although Michell died in
an accident in the mines in 1862. During this working period,
nearly 200,000 tons of ore were removed yielding 3,500 tons of
copper metal. The mines closed in 1877 and the Abandonment Plan of
1878 shows all the workings open at that date. This period saw the
mining of West Mine and Wood Mine and the reworking of Engine Vein,
Brinlow, Doc Mine and other smaller mines on the Edge (Warrington,
1981 and Carlon, 1979).
20th century
Visitors in Engine Vein
There were some small and unsuccessful attempts to re-open the
mines in 1911 (Anon, 1911), during the First World War and shortly
after but these ended in a sale of equipment in 1926 (Warrington,
1981). From the 1860s onwards, there have been many thousands of
visitors to the mines, many - including the earliest - with good
lighting and experienced leaders. However, many other visitors,
especially between 1940 and 1960, were ill-equipped and unprepared.
This led to a series of tragic accidents which gained the mines a
notoriety which still haunts them today. The West and Wood Mines
were finally blocked in the early 1960s (Jones, 1961). In 1969, the
Derbyshire Caving Club obtained permission from the National Trust
(the owners) to re-open Wood Mine and since then much has been
found by excavation and exploration and thousands of people have
visited the mines in supervised groups.
Historic buildings
Chorley Old Hall
There are
many historic buildings including Chorley Old Hall, which is the oldest surviving manor house in
Cheshire.
To the south of the village is the
Alderley Park estate, former ancestral home of
the
Stanley.
Local legends
There are several local legends, the most famous being that of the
Iron Gates.
The Iron Gates
The Wizard Inn
The location of the Iron Gates is unknown but they are supposed to
lie between Stormy Point and the Holy Well.
Tradition
says that a farmer from Mobberley
was taking a milk white horse to sell at the market
in Macclesfield. Whilst walking along the Edge, he reached a
spot known locally as "Thieves Hole." Suddenly an old man clad in a
grey and flowing garment stopped him. The old man offered the
farmer a sum of money for his horse but the farmer refused, saying
he could get a better price at the market. The old man told the
farmer that he would be at this spot again that evening when the
farmer returned, not having found a purchaser for the horse. The
farmer failed to sell the horse and, cursing his luck, made the
journey back home along the Edge. At the same point, the old man
appeared again, offering the farmer the money, which this time was
accepted. The old man told the farmer to follow him with the horse.
As they approached an area just past
Stormy
Point, the old man banged on the ground with his stick and, to
the farmer’s shock, the rock opened up to reveal a set of Iron
Gates. The old man beckoned the farmer to follow him through the
gates into a large cavern. In the cavern, the farmer saw countless
men and white horses, all asleep. The old man explained that all
these sleeping warriors were ready to awake and fight should
England fall into danger. The farmer was shown back to the gates
and stepped outside back onto the path. Immediately the gates
slammed shut and the rock face returned to its previous
state.
There are several versions of the same legend from different
places. A letter published in the
Manchester Mail in 1805 signed by a
gentleman known as "A Perambulator" supposes that this gentleman
has knowledge of the location of the Iron Gates near Stormy Point,
but no other person has claimed to have found them. Further
variations say that the
Wizard was
Merlin and the sleeping men were
King Arthur and his army. Yet another version
sees the old man saying to the farmer "There will come a day when
these men awake from their enchanted slumber and will descend the
plain, decide the fate of a great battle and save their country.
This shall happen when George the son of George shall reign."
Cheshire Enchanter
A tale told by
Parson Shrigley, former Clerk and Curate of
Alderley (who was in the post from 1753 until his death in 1776 and
is buried in Alderley Church), is similar to the Iron Gates legend.
In this tale, the old man is named as Thomas of Erceldoune and the
horses are black. Once in the cave, the old man asks the farmer to
choose between a sword and a horn. The farmer chooses the horn, and
immediately the horses all jump up and start to stamp their hooves
on the ground. The terrified farmer is expelled from the cave by a
whirlwind and hears the words "Woe is the coward that ever was
born, that did not draw the sword but blew the horn".
This tale is actually
very similar, including the sword and horn words, to a tale told by
Sir Walter Scott where the action
takes place not at Alderley but in the Eildon Hills
in Scotland
.
An alternative reading of this and other local legends can be found
in
Alan Garner's novels
The Weirdstone of
Brisingamen and
The
Moon of Gomrath. Garner, born in Congleton, was raised in
Alderley Edge.
Alderley Gold
Several ancient
gold bars have been found at
Alderley Edge. The first was found at the side of Artists Lane.
Because this bar was obviously old and consisted of gold, it was
declared
treasure trove.
A treasure trove
inquest was held in Congleton on 26 February 1993.
John
Cherry from the British
Museum
along with Adrian Tindall, the Principal
Conservation Officer (Archaeology) for Cheshire County Council made reports
on the bar, and determined the gold bar weighed 97.01 grams and was
determined to be 73% gold,
Following this inquest the media interest increased and numerous
people descended on the Edge hoping to find their own gold bars.
The result of all the searching was that 5 more gold bars were
found. These bars were also analysed by the British Museum. The
weight and gold content of the bars has been given as:
Bars 1/2/3 found on 23 June 1993 - 101.2 grams bar determined to be
76% gold / 97 grams bar determined to be 76% gold / 100.06 grams
bar determined to be 75% gold
Bar 4 found on 9 October 1997 - 81.9 grams bar determined to be 60%
gold
Bar 5 was found in the 1960s but not declared to the authorities
until 1997 - 100.7 grams bar determined to be 74% gold
Bypass
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A three mile north-to-south A34 Alderley Edge bypass is being built, starting at the Harden
roundabout at the south end of the existing Wilmslow bypass and going west of Alderley Edge and
rejoining the A34 at the bend about 400 yards north of the south
gate of Astra Zeneca's laboratory
grounds. Once complete the bypass will hopefully go a long
way to relieving the congestion caused by the 26,000 vehicles that
currently pass through Alderley Edge daily. It is scheduled to open
in the Summer of 2011. The project will cost over £50 million and
Birse Civils have been appointed as the Contractor for the main
civil engineering works. Further information and up-to-date news on
the progression of the bypass can be found on
alderleyedge.com
In popular culture
Due to its affluent image, the village has been used as a major
setting in various books and television shows:
Junior Football Clubs
Alderley Edge has a thriving Junior football club in Alderley
Athletic JFC who play on the Council owned fields on Chorley Hall
Lane. Catering for boys and girls from the ages of 7 upwards the
club plays in the local Timperley League and is the only Charter
Standard Club in the area awarded by the FA in 2008. They can be
found online at alderleyathleticjfc.co.uk
[78555]
Founded in 2007 by Mike Nolan - Head Coach and Jonathan Rowley -
Chairman the club has grown from 14 original players to 60 children
in the 2009 season covering ages from 7 to 11. The philosophy of
the club is based around Pressure Free Junior Football and strives
to create a positive impact on young children of the surrounding
area.
In summer 2009 Allan Hodges took over as Chairman and Jonathan
stepped down to Vice Chairman. The club also maintains the
Pavillion on Chorley Hall lane which it has been renovating since
2008.
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- University of Michigan Electronic Middle English
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- Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008
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