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Range Road, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2HH

Residential properties extend quite a long way up this hill. The large building opposite is Tameside General Hospital while mill refurbishment continues in the centre of Stalybridge at the bottom of the valley.

Hough Hill Road climbs from High Street through the town's southern suburbs. Here the road becomes a shady track as it leaves the built up area to skirt Hough Hill.

The band of trees in front of the housing is Cheetham's Park. In the centre is St Paul's Church on Huddersfield Road. If the day was clearer, you would see further up the Tame valley to Mossley and Lydgate.

Site of the Leech Family's "Summer House" on the Gorse Hall Estate, Stalybridge. Despite the name, ladies would use huts called "summer houses" to hide in so that sunlight did not harm their complexions! "Gorse Hall" is the local name for a former estate (and site of two stately homes of the same name) on the border between Stalybridge and Dukinfield, Greater Manchester. The first Gorse Hall ("Old Gorse Hall") dates back to at least the 1600's, and was demolished during the 1960's. The New Gorse Hall Mansion was built in 1835 by local mill owner John Leech (grandfather of Beatrix Potter). After his wife's death, the Mansion was bought by a local builder for his son, George Harry Storrs, who was murdered in mysterious circumstances on November 1st, 1909. The bricks used to construct the New Mansion were then used to re-front the Banks in Stalybridge town centre.

A new ornate entrance at the western end of Forester Drive.

Looking north towards Stalybridge though most of it is still hidden in the valley. Hartshead Pike can be seen left centre.

The former 'The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn' had a claim to fame as being the longest pub name in Britain. It is no longer a public house but a private dwelling although this plaque remains on the building.

Hough Hill is used to graze horses. Looking down on Bower Fold, home of Stalybridge Celtic FC

The former target wall of the Astley Volunteer Rifle Corps. The unit itself (what we would call today a "Territorial Army" unit) was Dukinfield-based and lent its name to "The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn" in Stalybridge, the longest pub name in the UK.

The view as walkers approach the site of the "New Gorse Hall Mansion", in Stalybridge. "Gorse Hall" is the local name for a former estate (and site of two stately homes of the same name) on the border between Stalybridge and Dukinfield, Greater Manchester. The first Gorse Hall ("Old Gorse Hall") dates back to at least the 1600's, and was demolished during the 1960's. The New Gorse Hall Mansion was built in 1835 by local mill owner John Leech (grandfather of Beatrix Potter). After his wife's death, the Mansion was bought by a local builder for his son, George Harry Storrs, who was murdered in mysterious circumstances on November 1st, 1909. The bricks used to construct the New Mansion were then used to re-front the Banks in Stalybridge town centre.