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Questions!
This page contains questions about Greenfield's past for example;
- Does anyone know the origin of the Chew Valley Tramway that carried clay from Mossley underneath Alphin up the valley past where Dovestones Reservoir is now, finishing short of the valley top where Chew Reservoir was being built?
The clay was used to line the Reservoir which at the time was the highest in the UK.
The track is clear for a great part but not so at the Mossley end though " the track passed just behind Dacres Hall"
A. Frank Thornton and Malcolm Wrigley advise that the track crossed Huddersfield Road above the Dysarts pub just past Hole House Farm, went down the field then across behind Dacres Hall-across a wooden bridge then through Roebucks field, and another bridge befors crossing Friezland Lane and heading off towards Fernlea! to where the track is still clearly visible!
Please e mail if you have the answer or have questions of your own.
It is interesting to note that the brave men who built Chew Reservoir will have suffered much hardship during the process which took from 1907 - 1914. Then no sooner was the Reservoir completed the Great War started and no doubt many of these hardy souls found themselves in the trenches!
2. Anyone know where the Shooters Arms was located?
A. Interestingly a census of 1822 says the landlord is William Bradbury causing speculation that the Shooters was another name for the infamous Moorcock!
3. Is it true that Greenfield Station once had the second longest platform in the country after Manchester Victoria?
A. No answer so far but I'm sure Ive read it somewhere!!
4. Was there a Dacres village? and were the 2 houses at the bottom of Dacres Drive part of the paddock to Dacres Hall?
 
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