Ref: Hayfield-Map
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The Hayfield Map was developed over a period of months starting with a little local history, looking at the place names mentioned on the 1640 map of Hayfield, the old farms: Brookhouses, High Gate, Spray House. Conversations followed with locals that discovered news names such as Legoland (the estate at Wood Lane), Jurassic Park (the old folks home on Shudehill) and The Slopes (the bridge carrying the bypass over Swallow House Lane)
Some of the names may require a little explanation:
Harry Beck: the originator of the London Tube Map in 1931.
Coronation Street: Little Hayfield has many connections with Coronation Street with its originator Tony Warren living there for some time.
Arthur Lowe: the actor most famed for his role as Captain George Mainwaring in the television show Dad's Army, was born on Kinder Road.
KMRT: Kinder Mountain Rescue Team, based in Hayfield.
Indian Rubber Desert: where the mills used to dump waste materials, now famed for its excellent biking trails.
Millionaires Row: the local name for Wood Gardens, also known as Knots Landing.
Puddlefields: now the campsite, previously where clay was extracted when making the dam for the reservoir.
Giggle Gaggle: origin unknown, the path that rises steeply up the bank from Bank Vale Farm towards Little Hayfield.
Higginbottom: Billy, chairman of Hayfield Cricket Club, who still holds several cricketing records. His son and grandsons play for Hayfield.
Hadfield: Charles, who was the butcher in Hayfield for many years, famed for his excellent sausages. Hadfield is an old name in Hayfield, with Edward Hadfield referred to as a creditor in Ralph Hyde's will of 1609 and Charles Hadfield being referred to as a debtor in Thomas Marriott's (of Kinder) will of 1618. The earliest reference to Hadfield is to Alles Hadfield and John Hadfield, her son, in John Bawdon's (of Aspinshaw) will of 1594.
Shudehill: curiously, little used these days, the hill just north of Hayfield centre, beyond the Pack Horse. Shudehill is referred to in many of the 17th century wills, at a time before Hayfield itself was little more than a few houses about the river, a chapel and the old farms: Brookhouses, Lanehead, Blackshaw, Ridgetop, Phoside, Hazlehurst, Stones House. What does Shude mean? A search of the web throws up references to the refuse of mills? So Shudehill may be the former site of a mill in Hayfield.