Chapel Hill
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Chapel Hill
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 9 Aug 2012
The house across the roundabout at the end of Talbot Road Image is called Chapel Hill and has a date stone reading 1912 Image I was told by someone that it was formerly a Wesleyan Chapel but research has failed to confirm that. Old maps show a U.M. chapel (United Methodists?) on the site. According to Thomas Middleton - History of Hyde and its Neighbourhood - 1932 p388, "A Sunday School at Shaw Hall was commenced in 1861 by James Jackson and James Earnshaw, in a small cottage, and was first connected with no particular sect. The school grew in numbers, and in 1863 the conductors decided to connect it with the United Methodist Free Church at Daisyfield." He goes on to say that it was closed in 1910. Possibly the chapel was restored or rebuilt in 1912 as a domestic residence bearing this name.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.462983
Longitude
-2.054034