Glossop, a parish in the hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, comprising the chapelries of Charlesworth, Chinley-Bugsworth with Brownside, and Mellor; the townships of Chunal, Dinting, Glossop, Great-Hamlet, Hadfield, Ludworth with Chisworth, Padfield, Simondsley, and Whitfield; the hamlets of Beard, Kinder, Olerset, Thornsett, and Whittle; and the liberty of Phoside, and containing 13,766 inhabitants, of which number, 1351 are in the township of Glossop, 10 miles (N.) from Chapel en le Frith. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield, rated in the King's books at £12. 18. 9., endowed with £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Norfolk. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has lately received an addition of two hundred and eighty sittings, of which one hundred and forty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense. There are several places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists within the limits of this extensive parish, the population of which has more than doubled during the last fifty years, owing to the great increase of its manufactures. There are about fifty cotton-mills, five extensive establishments for calico-printing, two clothing-mills, a manufactory for cloth, and another for brown paper. A fair for cattle, and wooden and tin ware, is held on the 6^th of May, in the township of Glossop. A school, wherein about forty children are taught, is supported by a small endowment, the origin of which is unknown, and by an annual donation from the Duke of Norfolk. Glossop is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. On the south side of the Mersey, near Woolley Bridge, are vestiges of a Roman station, in dimensions one hundred and twenty-two yards by one hundred and twelve, called Melandra Castle; the moat towards the south-east, the four entrances, the ramparts, about nine feet in thickness, and the site of the praetorium, twenty-five yards square, are still discernible, as is the old Roman road from Brough to this place, and that to Buxton.

Beard, a hamlet in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 4½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 332 inhabitants.

Charlesworth, a chapelry in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 8½ miles (N. N. W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 1005 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.

Chinley, a chapelry in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 2½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing, with Brownside and Bugsworth, 1038 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here is a trifling endowment for teaching poor children, besides which five are educated by means of Trickett's charity at Bowden, and others partake of Jenkinson's, jointly with Brownside.

Chisworth, a joint township with Ludworth, in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 9 miles (N. N. W.) from Chapel en le Frith. The population is returned with Ludworth.

Chunal (named as Chunat), a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 7½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 145 inhabitants.

Dinting, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 9½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 152 inhabitants.

Great-Hamlet, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 3½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 705 inhabitants.

Hadfield, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 11 miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 659 inhabitants. There is a neat Wesleyan Methodist chapel, with a school attached, in which upwards of four hundred children are educated. About thirty years since this district was almost entirely an agricultural one, and but thinly inhabited; but now there are many flourishing cotton factories (some of them on a large scale), which afford employment to nearly the whole of the population: there are also several good stone quarries. The river Mersey bounds the township on the north. Cattle fairs are held on the 9th of May and the 15th of October.

Hayfield, a chapelry in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 4½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £600 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of certain Trustees. The chapel was rebuilt in 1420, at the expense of Robert de Kinder. There are places of worship for Independents at Chinley, and for Methodists at Hayfield, Chinley, and New Mills. The free school, held in the ancient grammar school-house, was endowed, in 1604, by John Hyde, with an annuity of £10; the income, with various augmentations, amounts to £20. 6. 2; fifteen children are instructed. Eight children are likewise taught by a schoolmistress, for which purpose Mrs. Dorothy Hague bequeathed £16 per ann. Fairs are held on May 11th, for horses and cattle, and July 23rd for sheep and wool.

Kinder, a hamlet in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 4½ miles (N.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 129 inhabitants.

Ludworth, a joint township with Chisworth, in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 9½ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing, with Chisworth, 1077 inhabitants.

Mellor, a chapelry in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, comprising the townships of Mellor and Ludworth, and the hamlet of Whitle, and containing 4872 inhabitants, of which number, 2099 are in the township of Mellor, 8¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chapel en le Frith. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400 private benefaction and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Trustees of the late John Thornton, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas, is very ancient; the pulpit is carved out of an old oak-tree, and the font is also rudely carved. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists, and at Marple Bridge one for Independents. A free school was built about 1639, and endowed with £160 bequeathed by Thomas Walklate, to which some trifling augmentations have been made by subsequent benefactors : the income is £25 per annum, and all the children of the chapelry who apply are educated at a small charge. Here are extensive cotton works, which, afford employment to a considerable portion of the inhabitants.

New-Mills, a manufacturing district in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 21 miles (N.W.) from Derby, and 170 (N.W. by N.) from London, containing about 5000 inhabitants. Its original name was Bowden-Middle-Cale. Situated along the north bank of the Goyt, and reaching from Kinder-Scout to Mellor, it formerly comprised seven hamlets, but about a century ago it was subdivided, three of the hamlets remaining attached to Hayfield, and the other four, Beard, Ollerset, Whitle, and Thornset, being formed into a "township": formerly the whole of the inhabitants of the hamlets included in Bowden-Middle-Cale were accustomed to grind their corn at a common mill in Hayfield, but upon their subdivision, a new mill was erected upon the river Kinder, in the hamlet of Ollerset, and the name of New Mills was, in consequence, conferred on the four above-mentioned hamlets, the inhabitants of which ground their corn here. The Kinder derives its source from the mountain of Kinder-Scout, and, separating the county of Derby from that of Chester, falls into the river Goyt at a place called the Tor. The appellation of New Mills is yet more definitely applied to a cluster of factories and houses, which rise one above another from the brink of the river to the summit of the Crags, a height of several hundred feet, and also extend along the turnpike-road, as far as London Place. The original branches of manufacture in this district were those of paper and cloth, which have been superseded by-cotton, calico-printing, and bleaching works, &c.: coal mines abound in the neighbourhood, and contain some veins of lead-ore. In the year 1821, Mr. John Potts conceived the idea of adapting the method used by engravers in the potteries to the purposes of calico-printing, with the view of producing a more durable and brilliant effect than had hitherto been obtained in that branch of the art; his experiment was crowned with complete success, and proved the origin of a style of engraving which has been adopted by every calico engraver in that branch, not only in Great Britain and Ireland, but throughout the whole of Europe and the United States: the engraving establishment, belonging to the firm of Potts, Oliver, and Potts, is a neat and spacious fabric of red brick, tastefully decorated with various statues and vases, and affords employment to about one hundred artists; in the grounds at the back of the works is an extensive picture gallery, containing specimens of painting in oil and water colours, by Mr. John Potts: this repository promises at no very distant period, to become an object of considerable interest to the scientific traveller. A local subscription, amounting to £1000, has been raised towards the erection of a new church ; the sum of £2500 has been granted by the parliamentary commissioners, in aid of the work ; and a piece of ground has been given by Lord George Cavendish, for the site of the edifice, which will contain five hundred free sittings. The living will be a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Glossop. There are places of worship for Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. A charity school in the hamlet of Whitle, erected by subscription, affords gratuitous instruction to nine poor children, and the master receives about £10. 10. per annum, arising from bequests, by Mary Trickett, in 1712, and Ralph Bowden, in 1730; besides which, on a division of the common lands of Whitle, an extensive allotment was assigned towards the support of the school.

Olerset, a hamlet in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, containing 293 inhabitants.

Padfield, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 10½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 499 inhabitants.

Phoside, a liberty in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 504 inhabitants. Mary Trickett, in 1712, and John Hague, in 1782, each bequeathed a small sum for teaching poor children.

Simondsley, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 8 miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 340 inhabitants.

Thornsett, a hamlet in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 5¾ miles (N. W. by N.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 758 inhabitants.

Whitfield, a township in the parish of Glossop, hundred of High Peak, county of Derby, 8½ miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en le Frith, containing 984 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school-house was erected, about 1786, by Joseph Hague, Esq., who endowed it with land and houses of the present, annual value of £40; he also left the interest of £1000 to be expended in clothes for twelve poor men and as many women of this and other townships in the parish.