GLOSSOP, a parish in the hundred of HIGH-PEAK,
county of DERBY, comprising the chapelries of Charlesworth,
Chinley-Bugsworth with Brownside, and Mellor;
the townships of Chunat, Dinting, Glossop, Great-
Hamlet, Hadfield, Ludworth with Chisworth, Padfield,
Simondsley, and Whitfield; the hamlets of Beard, Kinder,
Olerset, Thornsett, and Whittle; and the liberty of
Phoside, and containing 13,766. inhabitants, of which
number, 1351 are in the township of Glossop, 10 miles
(N.) from Chapel en le Frith. . The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of
Lichfield, rated in the Icing's books at £12. 18. 9., endowed
with £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Duke of Norfolk. The church, dedicated
to All Saints, has lately received an addition of two
hundred and eighty sittings, of which one hundred and
forty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement
of churches and chapels having granted £200
towards defraying the expense. There are several places
of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists
within the limits of this extensive parish, the population
of which has more than doubled during the last fiftyyears,
owing to the great increase of its manufactures. There
are about fifty cotton-mills, five extensive establishments
for calico-printing, two clothing-mills, a manufactory
for cloth, and another for brown paper. A fair
for cattle, and wooden and tin ware, is held on the 6th
of May, in the township of Glossop. A school, wherein
about forty children are taught, is supported by a small
endowment, the origin of which is unknown, and by an
annual donation from the Duke of Norfolk. Glossop is
in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within
the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every
third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. On
the south side of the Mersey, near Woolley Bridge, are
vestiges of a Roman station, in dimensions one hundred
and twenty-two yards by one hundred and twelve,
called Melandra Castle; the moat towards the south-east,
the four entrances, the ramparts, about nine feet in thickness,
and the site of the przetorium, twenty-five yards
square, are still discernible, as is the old Roman road
from Brough to this place, and that to Buxton.