Publications list

Publications of New Mills Heritage Centre

The Torrs Riverside Park Bridges Trail 35p

The Torrs Industrial Trail 40p

Waterside Circular Walk (New Mills - Hague Bar) 15p

Goyt Way trail (Whaley Bridge-Marple) 15p

Geology and transport history in the Goyt valley £1.25

A short history of New Mills £1.95

Strines History Walk £1.50

Urban District Council Surveyor 1946-1974 £3.95

Nine local history walks £2.50

Town map £0.50p

Centre leaflet Free

Sett Valley Trail Free

The Torrs and Peak Forest Canal: an historical trail. £1.50

For details or orders please contact the Administrator, New Mills Heritage Centre, Rock Mill Lane, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK22 3BN. Tel: 01663 746904.

Old Ordnance Survey Maps

2nd edition 25-inch maps at reduced scale.
All £1.95 (Alan Godfrey edition)

New Mills (Low Leighton and Beard) 1896

New Mills (North) 1896

New Mills (Newtown) 1896

Birch Vale 1896

Whaley Bridge and Bugsworth 1896

Disley 1907

Hayfield 1919

Furness 1897

Publications of New Mills Local History Society

The following publications of the Local History Society are on sale at the Centre.

New Mills History Notes (A5 format)

1. New Mills in the 1820s : Part 1 (extracts from Stockport Advertiser) Out of Print
2. New Mills in the 1920s : Part 2 (extracts from Stockport Advertiser) Out of Print
3. Whitle Enclosure £1.25p
4. The mills of New Mills. See occasional publications below
5. New Mills 1830-35 (extracts from Stockport Advertiser) Out of Print
6. Railways of New Mills and district Out of Print*
7. Turnpike roads and riots £2.95p
8. The lost mills of Rowarth, £1.50p
9. The New Mills Tithe Award (central area) £2.95p (including map)
10. Deeds of New Mills and district £1.25p
11. The Peak Forest Canal: Upper level towpath guide £3.25
12. A history of Providence Congregational (Independent) Church, New Mills £1.25p
13. Memories of Strines, £1.50p
14. The lost chapel of Rowarth £1.50p
15. The coal mines of New Mills £3.25p
16. Bowden Middlecale - the occupants of the land 1778-1811 (From Land Tax Assessments). Out of Print.
17. More deeds of New Mills and district. Out of Print
18. New Mills 1835-39 (extracts from Stockport Advertiser) £1.25p
19. Three local history walks. 90p.
20. New Mills Co-operative Society 1860-90. Out of Print
21. The New Mill and some other corn mills of the High Peak £1.50p
22. The New Mills Air Raid: Friday 3 July 1942. Out of Print.
23. The Peak Forest Canal. Lower Level Towpath Guide £3.25p
24. The living past: New Mills people in late Tudor and early Stuart times (from probate documents) Out of Print
25. The Downes family, husbandmen in the New Mylne 1571-1697 (from probate documents) £2.25p.
26. A lifetime at Strines Printworks £3.25p
27. Hayfield Union Workhouse £3.25
28. Men of property: The Bowers and the Newtons in New Mills £3.25

New Mills Probate Transcription Series

Wills and inventories of New Mills people. Book One, 1540-1571 £3.25
Wills and inventories of new Mills people. Book Two, 1571-1582 £3.25
Wills and inventories of New Mills people. Book Three, 1586-1607 £5.95

Occasional Publications (A4 and A5 format)

l. Gravestone inscriptions: St George's Road Methodist Cemetery. Out of Print
2. New Mills and district: a look back (old photographs). Out of Print.
3. The Peak Forest Canal: its construction and later development £3.25
4. Church of the Annunciation St Mary's Catholic Church, New Mills, Graveyard records. £1.50.
5. Ollersett in l84l: land and people (Analysis of census returns and Tithe Award). Out of Print
6. New Mills in l85l and l88l as seen through the census returns (Comparative analysis of data using a computer). Out of Print.
7. The mills of New Mills (revised and greatly expanded edition of New Mills History Notes No 4 £2.95
8. The enclosure of Thornsett £2.95
9. Thornsett in 1841: and people £2.95
10. New Mills: A Look Back at its Industrial Heritage (a book of old photographs) £4.95

Out of print publications are available for reference at New Mills Library. It may be possible for photocopies to be made. For details and orders please contact the Editor, New Mills Local History Society, The Thorns, Laneside Road, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK22 4LU.

New Mills Local History Society:
microfilms at New Mills Library

New Mills Local History Society in association with New Mills Library provides a microfilm reader in New Mills Library, and a series of microfilms and microfiches for the use of members of the public. A great deal of interest has been generated and it is now necessary to make a booking to use the microfilm reader. (Tel: 01663 743603). The list of microfilms and microfiches now available is as follows:

Enumerators' Returns for Censuses l84l, l85l ,l86l, l87l, l88l, l89l.

Tithe map and Award l84l.

Ordnance Survey 25 inch sheets for the local area: lst and 2nd editions.

Plans and sections for New Mills railways. These include,the Manchester,Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway(l857):Stockport,Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway (l857):Disley and Hayfield Railway (l860):Marple,New Mills and Hayfield Junction Railway (l860 and l86l):Midland Railway (l862,l89l,l897 ,and l900:

Coal mining account book l7ll-l757

Newspapers:

High Peak Reporter l887-l927, l946-69 Glossop Record July l859-April l87l

Registers: New Mills Wesleyan Chapel;Baptisms l794-l837 Glossop Wesleyan Chapel:. Baptisms l8l3-l837 New Mills Independent Chapel: Baptisms l830-l837: Burials l832-l837 Chapelry of Hayfield (Glossop Parish): Baptisms l622-l880: Marriages l622-l759:Banns l837-l872:Burials l622-l854

International Genealogical Index (IGI) for Great Britain, Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

Derbyshire Directories: l808-l977. (New Mills entries are also available separately.

High Peak Advertiser, October 1881- July 1937 (1888 missing).