Talk:Longdendale

Longdendale UD
need to mention Longdendale UD. Morwen - Talk 16:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Turnpike
There's plenty more history to do with the turnpike which is worth digging up. So far I've found that: --VinceBowdren 18:07, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The turnpike was authorised by the Manchester Roads Act 1731 (or possibly 1732), and the company who built and maintained the turnpike was called the Manchester and Saltersbrook Turnpike Trust. has some good snippets of info, and mentions that the trust's archives are stored (and accessible) at Tameside's Local Studies & Archives Unit in Ashton-under-Lyne.
 * Presumably the road was built fairly promptly, though one site seems to claim it was built in 1825. That might be referring to a different road though.
 * The modern A628 route probably follows the old turnpike route for many stretches, though is known to differ in places (e.g. ), for example parts of the old route may now be submerged. Tracing where the old and new routes coincide and differ would be interesting.
 * The turnpike through Longdendale seems to have finished on the county border at Salter's brook (Saltersbrook), and other turnpikes (plural it seems though I don't know how many, their routes or their destinations) took over from there.
 * Presumably there would have been a tollbooth at the top - did there use to be a building at the site, even one of the distinctive octagonal towers that are still around in places?
 * Other turnpikes of the era had a 'saltersbrook' as their destination, but that is a common name on old passable routes so they may well be talking about different salters brooks.
 * There's an information board up at Salter's brook with loads of detail on it about the saltway and the turnpike; if I end up doing a walk over there some time I'll try and get a photo of it (or just scribble down the info).
 * I bet old OS maps would be informative, but they don't have them online so you'd have to pay for them.

And this site claims that the "Manchester to Barnsley" turnpike was built in 1728.

Wildlife
Bredbury mentions in passing that "By this time too, the wolves of Longdendale had been exterminated." - though doesn't say which of the articles sources this is from. --VinceBowdren 18:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Trivia ?
Good re-work of the article - but is the reputation for supernatural phenonomena trivia? WhaleyTim 13:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural District
I'd be surprised if any of Longdendale is/was ever in Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural District, so I've removed the newly added reference to it, as it seemed irrelevant. I stand to be corrected. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Yorkshire?
I'm not convinced Longdendale belongs in any Yorkshire categories or projects; at the very head of the valley the infant Etherow and Salters Brook form the boundary with South Yorkshire but the actual valley proper is pretty much entirely within Derbyshire. Views? Dave.Dunford (talk) 09:32, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

1465 or 1485 ?
Francis Lovell would presumably have remained Lord of Longdendale until the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, whereas the article states that the Lovells lost the lordship twenty years earlier. Is this a typo ? RGCorris (talk) 17:23, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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