HADFIELD, a township in the parish of GLOSSOP, hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 11 miles (N. by W.) from Chapel en fe Frith, containing 659 inhabitants. There is a neat Wesleyan Methodist chapel, with a school attached, in which upwards of four hundred children are educated. About thirty years since this district was almost entirely an agricultural one, and but thinly inhabited; but now there are many flourishing cotton factories (some of them on a large scale), which afford employment to nearly the whole of the population; there are also several good stone quarries. The river Mersey bounds the township on the north. Cattle fairs are held on the 9th of May and the 15th of October.