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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Woodhead like this:
WOODHEAD, a chapelry, with a r. station, in Mottram-in-Longendale parish, Cheshire; on the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 5 miles NE of Glossop. Post town. Tintwistle, under Manchester. Pop., 254. The property is all in one estate. Reservoirs of the Manchester water-works are here, with an aggregate area of 401 acres. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester. Value, £102. Patron, J. Tollemache, Esq. The church is plain.
Woodhead is now part of HIGH PEAK District. Click here for graphs and data of how HIGH PEAK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Woodhead itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Woodhead, in High Peak and Cheshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24218
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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