TINTWISLE, a township in the parish of MOTTRAM
in LONGDEN-DALE, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county
palatine of CHESTER, 94 miles (X. E. by E.) from Stockport,
containing 1580 inhabitants, who are mostly employed
in the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods,
and at the quarries of stone in the neighbovurhood.
There is a place of worship for Calvinistie Methodists,
attached to which is a school attended by about four
hundred children. Fairs for cattle are held, on May 2nd
and November 1st, at the village, which is situated on
an acclivity rising from the western bank of the river
Etheron. This was anciently a borough, and had a court
leet of its own j it is now only a member of the lordship
of Mottram in Longden-Dale, and is within the
jurisdiction of a court of requests held there, for the
recovery of debts under 40s.