Scheduled Monuments, Denton & Haughton

Nature Reserves & Woods

Scheduled Monuments
Name	Location	Grade	List Entry
Christ Church	Manchester Rd, Denton	II	1067969
Church of St Mary	Haughton Green	II	1067968
Lychgate at Church of St Mary	Haughton Green	II	1356486
Church of St Anne¹	St Anne’s Rd, Haughton	I	1309251
St Anne’s Church Rectory	St Anne’s Rd, Haughton	II*	1067970
Lychgate and churchyard wall to Church of St Anne and Rectory	St Anne’s Rd, Haughton	II	1356487
Church of St Lawrence	Stockport Rd, Denton	II*	1067971
Lychgate at Church of St Lawrence and churchyard wall to west and south	Market St & Town Ln, Denton	II	1309198
Horse mounting block near Lychgate of Church of St Lawrence	Town Ln, Denton	II	1356488
St Mary's Church of Our Lady of Sorrows	Duke St/Market St, Denton	II	1448761
Hyde Hall²	Town Ln, Denton	II*	1318129
Quadrangle of farm building at Hyde Hall	Town Ln, Denton	II	1067972
Former hat works at 53 and 55 Stockport Rd	Denton	II	1163339
Band Stand	Victoria Park, Denton	II	1163716
War Memorial	Victoria Park, Denton	II	1430008
Haughton Dale House	Meadow Ln, Haughton Green	II	1309247
Manor Farmhouse	Haughton Green Rd, Haughton Green	II	1356485
Former domestic hatting workshop (Bow Garret)	Market St, Denton	II	1419033
Section of a boundary ditch known as Nico Ditch³	Denton Golf Course, 320m south west of Lodge Farm		1016197
Tame Viaduct⁴	Reddish Vale	II	1389626

Bow Garret, early 19th century

Hyde Hall, 1625

Hyde family Coat of Arms dated 1625

Hyde Hall Farm Buildings, 1687 & 19th century

Tame Viaduct, Reddish Vale, 1875

Lychgate & boundary wall at St Anne's Church, Haughton, 1882

St Anne's Church Rectory, Haughton, 1882

Manor Farmhouse, Haughton Green, 1735

Haughton Dale House, early 19th century

The ditch was about 7.84-miles long, as the crow flies, between Ashton Moss in Ashton-under-Lyne (Grid Ref: SJ 92141 98816) to Ryebank Fields in Chorlton-cum-Hardy (Grid Ref: SJ 81027 94651) and it may have extended through Stretford for a short distance. It passed through Audenshaw (now below Audenshaw Reservoirs), Denton, Gorton, Levenshulme, Rusholme and Fallowfield (Platt Fields Park).

It was constructed sometime between the end of the Roman Era (Roman Legions were withdrawn in 410AD) and the Norman Conquest of 1066. Its original purpose is unknown but the most likely reason for its construction during the Anglo-Saxon period is that it was an administrative boundary; either a 7th century boundary of Anglo-Saxon expansion or a late 8th to early 9th century boundary between the kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. One possibility is that it was constructed in the reign of Offa, King of Mercia from 757 until 796AD. In this period the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria struggled for control of North West England aggravated by Danish inroads. Eventually the area became part of Danelaw and the river Mersey was the boundary between Mercia and Danelaw.

In addition to the section on Denton Golf Course another scheduled section of Nico Ditch is situated in Platt Fields, Fallowfield, Manchester, off the west side of Wilmslow Rd (53.44671, -2.21893). This is List Entry No. 1015132.

At the western end of this 148-yards-long section of Nico Ditch in Platt Fields (near the boating lake) there is a stone plaque inscribed:

Part of the Very Ancient Mickle or Great Ditch Sometimes called Nico Ditch Well-known A.D. 1200. Extending over Five Miles from here to Ashton Moss and Bounding several Townships. Described fully in Vol. XXIII. of Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.

Buckton Castle, Mossley
This monument is situated on Buckton Moor on top of a sandstone ridge, known as Buckton Hill, off the east side of Moor Edge Road, Mossley. The site is to the north east of Carrbrook, Stalybridge. It is a medieval ringwork fortification that is likely to have been constructed in the 12th century on the site of a prehistoric hillfort. Typically, ringworks were fortifications, similar to motte and baileys but without the motte, built and occupied from the late Anglo-Saxon period up to the late 12th century. They were comprised of a small defended area containing buildings surrounded, or partly surrounded, by a substantial ditch and a bank surmounted by a timber palisade or, rarely, a stone wall. Occasionally, a more lightly defended embanked enclosure, the bailey, adjoined the ringwork. In the 17th century Buckton Castle was acquired as a beacon site. These were used to light fires to make a warning of the approach of hostile forces. This took the form of a smoke signal by day and flames at night. They were always sited on prominent positions and formed part of a chain or group covering most parts of the country. Buckton Castle is listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, List Entry No. 1015131.

Round Cairn, Stalybridge
This monument is located on Wild Bank Hill (Hollingworthhall Moor) to the east of Stalybridge and it consists of a nearly round, flat-topped mound of stones up to about 2.6-feet high with maximum dimensions of about 20.8 yards by 19.7 yards. The top and the southern edge of the cairn have been partially damaged by the construction of the Ordnance Survey Wild Bank triangulation point (399m) and a drystone wall, the latter having since been largely removed. The triangulation point is included in the scheduling. Round cairns are prehistoric funerary monuments dating to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). They were constructed as stone mounds covering single or multiple burials. These burials may be placed within the mound in stone-lined compartments called cists. In some cases a cairn was surrounded by a ditch. This cairn is listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, List Entry No. 1011682.

These are situated alongside the river Tame and they include:

Whittles Farm Wood between St Lawrence’s Rd and Mill Ln. Glass House Fold, Dan Wood, Gower Hey Wood and Gibraltar Wood between Mill Ln and Gibraltar Ln. Haughton Dale Local Nature Reserve and Apethorn Wood between Haughton Green and the Peak Forest Canal in Hyde. Haughton Dale Wood at the bottom of Meadow Ln. Hulme’s Wood and Hardy Wood to the east of Stockport Rd. Other notable Denton woods are: Horse Close Wood to the south of Hyde Hall. Holt Wood on the north side of Reddish Vale. Denton Wood between Windmill Ln and Ross Lave Ln.

River Tame, Haughton Dale.