Little Hulton
Encyclopedia
Little Hulton is a village—effectively a suburb
—within the City of Salford
, in Greater Manchester
, England. It lies 3.4 miles (5.5 km) south of Bolton
, 7 miles (11.3 km) west-northwest of Salford, and 9 miles (14.5 km) west-northwest of Manchester
. Little Hulton is bordered by Farnworth
to the north and Walkden
to the east.
According to the United Kingdom Census 2001
, Little Hulton has a total resident population of 10,216.
Historically Little Hulton was a village in the ancient Deane
parish with a chapel, sometimes called Peel Chapel. The chief manor was at Hulton Park in Over Hulton.
Wharton was a subordinate manor in a district in Little Hulton that gave its name to the family living there, later it was owned by the Asshetons
of Great Lever and the Morts. It was sold to a colliery company, Bridgewater Estates. Wharton Hall was a two-storey farmhouse built of brick, timber and plaster.
In the 13th century Peel or Wicheves, another district in Little Hulton, was owned by the Hulton family who sold it to the Tyldesleys. Later it was owned by Edmund Fleetwood of Rossall who sold it to the Morts. Joseph Yates of Manchester bought it in the 18th century and his descendants sold it to colliery owner, Ellis Fletcher of Clifton. Peel Hall was built in 1840 by Matthew Fletcher, from the designs of Sir Charles Barry.
It stands on the site of an older hall which was a stone building with a moat. Peel Hall became a hospital for treating tuberculosis and later a hospital for the elderly until it closed in 1990. It was sold to a development company for refurbishment but despite being a Grade II listed building it was vandalised and became dangerous and was demolished in the mid 1990s.
Another Peel, known as Kenyon Peel Hall, was owned by Alexander Rigby in 1600, he gave it to his son George.
It passed to Roger Kenyon of Parkhead through marriage. It was a large timber, stone and brick house which was built in the late 16th century and enlarged in 1617. The house was demolished and the site occupied by a modern housing estate. Kenyon Peel Hall was about a quarter of a mile south of the ancient highway from Manchester to Bolton.
Coal mining and weaving were the major occupations in the mid nineteenth century.
In 1870 the London and North Western Railway
opened a line from Roe Green on the Eccles, Tyldesley and Wigan Railway to serve collieries at Little Hulton and in 1874 an extension to Bolton was opened with passenger services commencing in 1875. The line closed in 1965. A ten feet wide Roman road
was found when the railway was being cut.
Walkden Yard or NCB
Central Workshops was situated south of High Street, Walkden
close to the Ellesmere Colliery was partly in Little Hulton. It was built 1898 by the Bridgewater Trust as a central works depot providing engineering services for the collieries and locomotives used by their colliery railways. The yard closed as a British Coal workshop in 1986 and is now a housing estate.
The Cutacre site was granted planning permission in 2001 for the surface mining of 900,000 tonnes of coal and reworking of the spoil tip. The operation was expected to last for 4 years and began in 2006. The restoration scheme would create over 100 hectares of amenity woodland and wetlands as well as for an area of industrial development. UK Coal is currently working with neighbouring Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council to promote the Cutacre site through the Local Development Framework process. Bolton Council have identified Cutacre as a key strategic site for future development in Bolton and consequently plans have changed. There has been a long campaign against the proposals by residents in Little Hulton.
s by Salford Council to accommodate residents moved there from the slum clearance areas of post war Salford. By the end of 1956 over a thousand families had moved to the overspill estate being built at Little Hulton and by 1962 3,060 houses had been built as a result of mass slum clearance in Salford. Little Hulton aimed to create a suburb that would improve the standard of living and create private space, greenspace and a sense of community for the new residents. Some streets in Little Hulton adopt the names of places in Salford. This was an attempt by town planners of the time to make the people moving to Little Hulton feel more at home, and is confirmable within modern A-Z Street Atlases
.
a part of the hundred of Salford
in the county of Lancashire
, until the 19th century, Little Hulton was a township
and chapelry
in the ecclesiastical parish of Deane
, in Lancashire. In 1837 Little Hulton along with neighbouring township
s (or civil parishes) became part of the Bolton
Poor Law Union
which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law
in that area. In 1872 a Local Board of Health
was established for the township, and in 1894 Little Hulton Urban District
was created, however, it was abolished in 1933 and merged into Worsley
Urban District
Since 1974 Little Hulton has been an electoral ward
of the City of Salford
. As of 2009 all three councillors for the Little Hulton ward represent the Labour Party
.
Little Hulton's MP is Barbara Keeley who won the parliamentary seat for Worsley
at the 2005 General Election
.
which led to Great Ejection of clergy. Reverend James Wood (the elder) of Chowbent Chapel
in Atherton had to leave the chapel but continued to hold services in private houses, including that of the Mort family at Wharton Hall. A Presbyterian church was rebuilt in 1723 and after 1755 used by different denominations until it was restored to the Presbyterians in 1860. A new church was built in 1901.
The first Peel Chapel was situated slightly to the north of St Paul's over the vaults of the Kenyon & Fletcher families. It was built by the Yates family and consecrated in 1760 as a Chapelry in the Parish of Deane. In March 1874 Peel Chapel became a parish, the Chapelry of St. Paul, Peel. A foundation stone for a new Church was laid by Lord Kenyon in August 1874 and the church, built in locally quarried sandstone, consecrated in December 1876. Its spire was built in 1898 and is 165 feet (50.3 m) high. It is a Grade II Listed building.
Suburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
—within the City of Salford
City of Salford
The City of Salford is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Salford, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton-Pendlebury, Walkden and Irlam which apart from Irlam each have a population of over...
, in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
, England. It lies 3.4 miles (5.5 km) south of Bolton
Bolton
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. Close to the West Pennine Moors, it is north west of the city of Manchester. Bolton is surrounded by several smaller towns and villages which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the...
, 7 miles (11.3 km) west-northwest of Salford, and 9 miles (14.5 km) west-northwest of Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
. Little Hulton is bordered by Farnworth
Farnworth
Farnworth is within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is located southeast of Bolton, 6 miles south-west of Bury , and northwest of Manchester....
to the north and Walkden
Walkden
Walkden is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is west-northwest of Salford, and west-northwest of Manchester....
to the east.
According to the United Kingdom Census 2001
United Kingdom Census 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194....
, Little Hulton has a total resident population of 10,216.
History
The ancient district of Hulton, contained three townships, Over, Middle and Little Hulton, it was recorded as Helghtun and Hulton in 1235, Hilton in 1278 and 1292, Hulton in 1292 although Hilton was still used until the 17th century.Historically Little Hulton was a village in the ancient Deane
Deane, Greater Manchester
Deane is an area of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is about south west of Bolton and northwest of the city of Manchester.Historically a part of Lancashire, the Parish of Deane was once one of four parishes within the hundred of Salford and covered roughly half of the present...
parish with a chapel, sometimes called Peel Chapel. The chief manor was at Hulton Park in Over Hulton.
Wharton was a subordinate manor in a district in Little Hulton that gave its name to the family living there, later it was owned by the Asshetons
of Great Lever and the Morts. It was sold to a colliery company, Bridgewater Estates. Wharton Hall was a two-storey farmhouse built of brick, timber and plaster.
In the 13th century Peel or Wicheves, another district in Little Hulton, was owned by the Hulton family who sold it to the Tyldesleys. Later it was owned by Edmund Fleetwood of Rossall who sold it to the Morts. Joseph Yates of Manchester bought it in the 18th century and his descendants sold it to colliery owner, Ellis Fletcher of Clifton. Peel Hall was built in 1840 by Matthew Fletcher, from the designs of Sir Charles Barry.
It stands on the site of an older hall which was a stone building with a moat. Peel Hall became a hospital for treating tuberculosis and later a hospital for the elderly until it closed in 1990. It was sold to a development company for refurbishment but despite being a Grade II listed building it was vandalised and became dangerous and was demolished in the mid 1990s.
Another Peel, known as Kenyon Peel Hall, was owned by Alexander Rigby in 1600, he gave it to his son George.
It passed to Roger Kenyon of Parkhead through marriage. It was a large timber, stone and brick house which was built in the late 16th century and enlarged in 1617. The house was demolished and the site occupied by a modern housing estate. Kenyon Peel Hall was about a quarter of a mile south of the ancient highway from Manchester to Bolton.
Coal mining and weaving were the major occupations in the mid nineteenth century.
In 1870 the London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three companies – the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway...
opened a line from Roe Green on the Eccles, Tyldesley and Wigan Railway to serve collieries at Little Hulton and in 1874 an extension to Bolton was opened with passenger services commencing in 1875. The line closed in 1965. A ten feet wide Roman road
Roman road
The Roman roads were a vital part of the development of the Roman state, from about 500 BC through the expansion during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Roman roads enabled the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate. The Roman road system spanned more than 400,000 km...
was found when the railway was being cut.
Coal mining and Cutacre
Little Hulton was extensively mined from the mid 19th century, the collieries included Madam's Wood, Brackley, Wharton Hall, Ashton's Field and Peel Hall which were served by mineral railways. Mine spoil was deposited around the early collieries but in the 20th century the Cutacre tip developed in the valley of the Cutacre Clough and was the dumping ground for mine waste from Brackley and neighbouring Mosley Common Collieries.Walkden Yard or NCB
National Coal Board
The National Coal Board was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the mines on "vesting day", 1 January 1947...
Central Workshops was situated south of High Street, Walkden
Walkden
Walkden is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is west-northwest of Salford, and west-northwest of Manchester....
close to the Ellesmere Colliery was partly in Little Hulton. It was built 1898 by the Bridgewater Trust as a central works depot providing engineering services for the collieries and locomotives used by their colliery railways. The yard closed as a British Coal workshop in 1986 and is now a housing estate.
The Cutacre site was granted planning permission in 2001 for the surface mining of 900,000 tonnes of coal and reworking of the spoil tip. The operation was expected to last for 4 years and began in 2006. The restoration scheme would create over 100 hectares of amenity woodland and wetlands as well as for an area of industrial development. UK Coal is currently working with neighbouring Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council to promote the Cutacre site through the Local Development Framework process. Bolton Council have identified Cutacre as a key strategic site for future development in Bolton and consequently plans have changed. There has been a long campaign against the proposals by residents in Little Hulton.
20th century
Before 1949 Little Hulton was a village of around 8,000 people. The land was developed into council housing overspill estateOverspill estate
An overspill estate is a housing estate planned and built for the rehousing of people from decaying inner city areas usually as part of the process of slum clearance....
s by Salford Council to accommodate residents moved there from the slum clearance areas of post war Salford. By the end of 1956 over a thousand families had moved to the overspill estate being built at Little Hulton and by 1962 3,060 houses had been built as a result of mass slum clearance in Salford. Little Hulton aimed to create a suburb that would improve the standard of living and create private space, greenspace and a sense of community for the new residents. Some streets in Little Hulton adopt the names of places in Salford. This was an attempt by town planners of the time to make the people moving to Little Hulton feel more at home, and is confirmable within modern A-Z Street Atlases
Geographer's A–Z Street Atlas
The A–Z or A to Zed, or in full the Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas, is a name given to any one of a range of atlases of streets in the United Kingdom currently produced by Geographers' A-Z Map Company Limited. The first atlas, of London, was originally compiled in the 1930s by Phyllis Pearsall...
.
Governance
HistoricallyHistoric counties of England
The historic counties of England are subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans and in most cases based on earlier Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and shires...
a part of the hundred of Salford
Salford (hundred)
The hundred of Salford was an ancient division of the historic county of Lancashire, in Northern England. It was sometimes known as Salfordshire, the name alluding to its judicial centre being the township of Salford...
in the county of Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
, until the 19th century, Little Hulton was a township
Township (England)
In England, a township is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church...
and chapelry
Chapelry
A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England, and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel which acted as a subsidiary place of worship to the main parish church...
in the ecclesiastical parish of Deane
Deane, Greater Manchester
Deane is an area of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is about south west of Bolton and northwest of the city of Manchester.Historically a part of Lancashire, the Parish of Deane was once one of four parishes within the hundred of Salford and covered roughly half of the present...
, in Lancashire. In 1837 Little Hulton along with neighbouring township
Township (England)
In England, a township is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church...
s (or civil parishes) became part of the Bolton
Bolton
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. Close to the West Pennine Moors, it is north west of the city of Manchester. Bolton is surrounded by several smaller towns and villages which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the...
Poor Law Union
Poor Law Union
A Poor Law Union was a unit used for local government in the United Kingdom from the 19th century. The administration of the Poor Law was the responsibility of parishes, which varied wildly in their size, populations, financial resources, rateable values and requirements...
which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law
Poor Law
The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief which existed in England and Wales that developed out of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws before being codified in 1587–98...
in that area. In 1872 a Local Board of Health
Local board of health
Local Boards or Local Boards of Health were local authorities in urban areas of England and Wales from 1848 to 1894. They were formed in response to cholera epidemics and were given powers to control sewers, clean the streets, regulate slaughterhouses and ensure the proper supply of water to their...
was established for the township, and in 1894 Little Hulton Urban District
Urban district
In the England, Wales and Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council , which shared local government responsibilities with a county council....
was created, however, it was abolished in 1933 and merged into Worsley
Worsley
Worsley is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies along the course of Worsley Brook, west of Manchester. The M60 motorway bisects the area....
Urban District
Since 1974 Little Hulton has been an electoral ward
Wards of the United Kingdom
A ward in the United Kingdom is an electoral district at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors. It is the primary unit of British administrative and electoral geography .-England:...
of the City of Salford
City of Salford
The City of Salford is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Salford, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton-Pendlebury, Walkden and Irlam which apart from Irlam each have a population of over...
. As of 2009 all three councillors for the Little Hulton ward represent the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
.
Little Hulton's MP is Barbara Keeley who won the parliamentary seat for Worsley
Worsley
Worsley is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies along the course of Worsley Brook, west of Manchester. The M60 motorway bisects the area....
at the 2005 General Election
General election
In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...
.
Geography
Little Hulton is the most easterly of the Hulton townships, it covers an area of 1707 acres (6.9 km²) rising from 200 feet (61 m) in the south east to 380 feet (115.8 m) in the north west. The main Manchester to Chorley road, the A6, crosses the town. Much of the area was pasture and meadow on good soil. Sandstone was quarried at Peel quarry and the underlying rocks are largely coal measures.Population change
| Population growth in Little Hulton from 1881–1961 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1951 | ||||
| Population | 5,714 | 6,693 | 7,294 | 8,103 | 7,910 | 7,874 | 9,997 | ||||
Little Hulton Ch/CP |
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Religion
The old Wharton Chapel had its origins in the Act of Uniformity 1662Act of Uniformity 1662
The Act of Uniformity was an Act of the Parliament of England, 13&14 Ch.2 c. 4 ,The '16 Charles II c. 2' nomenclature is reference to the statute book of the numbered year of the reign of the named King in the stated chapter...
which led to Great Ejection of clergy. Reverend James Wood (the elder) of Chowbent Chapel
Chowbent Chapel
Chowbent Chapel is a Unitarian place of worship in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It was built in 1721 and is the oldest place of worship in the town. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British...
in Atherton had to leave the chapel but continued to hold services in private houses, including that of the Mort family at Wharton Hall. A Presbyterian church was rebuilt in 1723 and after 1755 used by different denominations until it was restored to the Presbyterians in 1860. A new church was built in 1901.
The first Peel Chapel was situated slightly to the north of St Paul's over the vaults of the Kenyon & Fletcher families. It was built by the Yates family and consecrated in 1760 as a Chapelry in the Parish of Deane. In March 1874 Peel Chapel became a parish, the Chapelry of St. Paul, Peel. A foundation stone for a new Church was laid by Lord Kenyon in August 1874 and the church, built in locally quarried sandstone, consecrated in December 1876. Its spire was built in 1898 and is 165 feet (50.3 m) high. It is a Grade II Listed building.
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