Saddleworth Historical Society

Current Publications

HISTORY OF SADDLEWORTH 1828. James Butterworth
Standard edition: Approx 9¼ x 5¼ inches, pages 86 plus introduction, hard back bound in buckram, printed on library quality paper, with dust jacket. 
£13.95

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MAPPING SADDLEWORTH

Volume I, Printed Maps of the Parish 1771 - 1894

Edited by Mike Buckley, David Harrison and Alan Petford

£19.95 Order form

 

SADDLEWORTH 1914 -1919
The experience of a Pennine community during the Great War
By K. W. Mitchinson

Soft backed £5.00     
Hard backed £10.00p 240  includes a comprehensive listing & details of the men killed, of POWs & gallantry awards.
The hardback edition stock is now less than twenty.

CHERRY VALLEY CHRONICLES
Letters from Thomas Buckley and family - immigrants to Cherry Valley and Milbury, Massachusetts, USA, to his son Ralph Buckley and family, of Dobcross and Delph, Saddleworth.
Transcribed by Maurice Dennett
£10.00

 

PASSAGE THROUGH TIME

A History of Saddleworth roads and track-ways

By Bernard Barnes

£6.95

 

ST ANNE'S LYDGATE

The story of a Pennine Parish

By Canon C. C. W. Airne

£5.50

 

WITH AMMON WRIGLEY IN SADDLEWORTH

By Sam Seville
Son-in-law and companion of the Saddleworth writer and poet

£5.95

 

THE SADDLEWORTH STORY

A collection of historical essays
WEA Publication

£2.00

 

 

HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL
A compendium of articles from the Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin on the construction of the Canal.
Published for the Bicentenary in 1994

£5.95

 

 

 

Local Interest Trails
Walks around Saddleworth: Illustrated with notes on local history and landscapes.

£1.20p each

1. DELPH, HEIGHTS AND GRANGE
2. UPPERMILL
3. GREENFIELD
4. HUDDERSFIELD NARROW CANAL
5. GRASSCROFT
6. DENSHAW
7. DELPH
8. LYDGATE AND GROTTON
9. DOBCROSS
10. DIGGLE
11. CASTLESHAW

 

STREET GUIDE TO SADDLEWORTH

An A2 comprehensive Street Map of the area
Published by the Society, May 1995

£1.20

 

Countryside Guides

Large scale maps of the district showing public footpaths, amenities and features of special interest: with notes on the local and natural history of Saddleworth.

SADDLEWORTH NORTH          £2.40

SADDLEWORTH SOUTH           £2.40

CHURCHYARD PLANS
A plan of the Old Graveyard at Saddleworth Church
£1.20  

A plan of the Lower Graveyard at Saddleworth Church
£3.00 

 

ADDRESS TO THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF MEN IN SADDLEWORTH

Shewing the necessity of supporting the Plan laid down for augmenting the Price of Labour in the Woollen Manufactory: Describing the Distressed Situation of the Parish in 1795.

By Daniel Nield

SADDLEWORTH VILLAGES Illustrated with over one hundred pen and ink drawings by society member, Geoff Toms of Morley, Derbyshire, this hardback book celebrates the many and various features to be seen in the Saddleworth Villages. £14.95

 

Presently out of stock. Reprint planned.