Link: Milltown Glossop Website

[maidmarianoops]

http://www.glossopheritage.co.uk

walk down memory lane

sylvia

[Woody32]

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?

[maidmarianoops]

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


sylvia

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Pigot1828/glossop1828.html