I was a bit short of time yesterday so I've had another look at the original lease deeds (some of which I was able to retain possession of when I sold the land). I also had a nagging memory about that particular plot.
The land on which numbers 4, 6 and 8 Pikes Lane are built were originally leased by my 3 x great grandfather, John Hadfield, to a John Chappell on 1st April 1856. For some reason the lease must have been surrendered and was re-leased in 1872 to John Batty (who is recorded as living in number 4 in 1871). The annual ground rent in 1856 was £2 1s 6d, the difference presumably explained by the fact that the 1872 lease covered a slightly smaller plot of land:
Mr John Hadfield to Mr John Chappell - Counterpart Lease.
Counterpart Lease of a plot of land situate at Whitfield in the parish of Glossop in the county of Derby for building upon.
BETWEEN John Hadfield of Whitfield in the parish of Glossop in the county of Derby Yeoman and John Chappell of Whitfield in the parish of Glossop Spinner.
ALL that plot piece or parcel of land as the same is now measured and set out situate lying and being in Whitfield in the parish of Glossop in the county of Derby heretofore part of a certain close or field of land of him the said John Hadfield called The Bridge Field and bounded on the Northerly side thereof by other part of the said close called The Bridge Field on the Southerly side thereof by a Lane leading from the Old Highway between Whitfield and Simmondley to The Pikes on the Easterly side thereof by land of the said John Hadfield now leased or intended to be leased to Samuel Peter Carrington heretofore part of the said close called The Bridge Field and on the Westerly side thereof by other part of the said close of the said John Hadfield called The Bridge Field intended hereafter to be made into a street of eight yards wide and which said plot piece or parcel of land contains on the Northerly side thereof forty six feet and three inches or thereabouts on the Southerly side thereof forty five feet or thereabouts on the Easterly side thereof from the point in the plan drawn in the margin of these presents marked A being the south easterly corner thereof to the point in the same plan marked B on the said Easterly side thereof thirty seven feet or thereabouts and from the same last mentioned point marked B to the point in the said plan marked C being the Northeasterly corner thereof thirty one feet or thereabouts making along the whole Easterly side thereof sixty eight feet or thereabouts and on the Westerly side thereof fifty four feet or thereabouts being in width across from the said point on the Easterly side thereof marked B in the said plan in a direct line to the Westerly side thereof to the point marked D in the said plan fifty three feet and six inches and which said plot piece or parcel of land contains in the whole Three hundred and twenty eight square yards or thereabouts.
The land on which 2 Pikes Lane and 54 & 56 Hollincross Lane are built was leased on the same day (1 April 1856) but that on which numbers 10 to 10 Pikes Lane were built was not leased until 22nd August 1859.
Pikes Lane is so named because it it led "from the highway between Whitfield and Simmondley to the Pikes". The Pikes was Pikes Farm and Pike Plantation (on which The Junction pub was built in 1817).
"the highway between Whitfield and Simmondley" ran from Victoria Street, along James Street and Hollincross Lane and down Slatelands (past Slatelands Cottage shown on the 1879 map referenced above).
John Chappell and family are listed in the 1861 census as living in Hollincross Lane (presumably the enumerator didn't know where it ended and Pikes Lane began). Which house that was (4, 6 or 8 ) is not known:
John Chappell Head Married Male 32 1829 Cotton Spinner Glossop, Derbyshire, England
Mary Chappell Wife Married Female 32 1829 - Cumberworth, Yorkshire, England
Walter Chappell Son - Male 6 1855 Scholar Glossop, Derbyshire, England
Richard Chappell Son - Male 2 1859 - Glossop, Derbyshire, England
Joseph E Chappell Son - Male 0 1861 - Glossop, Derbyshire, England
