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maidmarianoops
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« on: Saturday 16 May 09 09:42 UTC (UK) »
http://www.milltown-glossop.co.uk/index.html

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Re: milltown glossop
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 16 May 09 09:48 UTC (UK) »
Hi Sylvia,

some of my ancestors (HOWARD) came from Glossop and i noticed on the above website there is an area called "Howard town" do you know the origins of the name Howard town?
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« Reply #2 on: Monday 18 May 09 03:32 UTC (UK) »


Early in the 19th century another village sprang up alongside the Glossop Brook. It was called Howardtown after the chief landowner, Bernard Edward Howard. Cotton manufacturing took place there on a rapidly increasing scale, so much so that the population increased six fold in half a century. The original wood-fulling mill, built in the 1780s was taken over by the Wood family in 1819.




Extract from Pigot's Commercial Directory of Derbyshire 1828-9

Howard's Town  lately called Bridge-end, about one mile from Glossop, in that parish, is a thriving little place, called into consequence by the erection of some extensive cotton manufactories. The population is made up with Glossop


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