HADFIELD, a village and a township in Glossop parish, Derby. The village stands near the boundary with Cheshire, the river Etherow, and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 2 miles WNW of Glossop; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, jointly with Tintwistle, and a post office‡ under Manchester. The township comprises 357 acres. Pop. in 1851, 1, 989; in 1861, 2, 722. Houses, 532. Hadfield Hall is an old seat of the Hadfields, and was built in 1646. There are several cotton mills, a Wesleyan chapel, a Roman Catholic chapel, and a national school. The Roman Catholic chapel was built partly with the aid of £5, 000 from Lord Edward Howard; and the national school is used as a chapel of ease.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))