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Miss Marple

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2011, 09:19:38 PM »
I thought that graveyards could be built on anyway after a hundred years if no relatives visit or is that wrong ?

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2011, 08:18:27 PM »
I remember Peacefield school being built - think it was just a field before that.

I'm convinced that Henrietta is correct:

The 1836-51 Tithe maps show the land was pasture and meadow. The 3 fields that correspond were called Middle Field (plot 404) Further Field (plot 405) and Turf Ley Piece (plot 400). Plots 404 and 405 were owned by Mary Stephenson and plot 400 by Thomas Brindley. (note the name Piece morphs to Peace very easily).

Peace Farm (also known as The Place) was on the site of Texaco Garage and could be another link to the name.

The 1875 and 1910 OS maps show that they were still nothing but fields then. Interestingly the 1910 map shows the Manse but the 1875 doesn't, giving you a time period when it was built. I don't believe there was a graveyard as there is no evidence for this what-so-ever, but if there was it was long gone by 1836!
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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2011, 06:36:56 PM »
It would be interesting to know if Peacefield School was sited on an old Grave Yard.  Around eleven years ago I was interested in purchasing The Manse ( the house of a clergyman ) which is near Peacefield school it was connected to a church but I have no idea which church it was, and it may well have been near to The Manse and demolished prior to the housing development.  Any idea how to find this information out? Maybe on an ordnance server map maybe ? Any ideas ?
The Manse (a large Victorian/Edwardian semi-detached house on Cross Lane) was the home of the Methodist Minister - not sure if it was Trinity Mothodist Chapel on Market Street (Where Iceland is now) or the Grove Methodist Chapel on Church Lane but think it was the latter. I was at Primary School with the Minister's daughter, Rosalind(?). It's unlikely that the grave yard if it was there had any connection with the Manse as it must have pre-dated the Manse by a good period.

I go back to the 1950s and don't remember any churches in the vicinity or any oral history involving one. I can't find anything on the Stockport website or on Google. I'm pretty certain that Cross Lane would be in the Parish of All Saints which had it's own graveyard.

I remember Peacefield school being built - think it was just a field before that.

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2011, 01:58:32 AM »
When I was at Peacefield Primary School many years ago the headteacher told everyone in an assembly that the school may be haunted because it was next to a grave yard, and on another occasion said that the school wasn't allowed to build a fence across the field to separate the school from the college, and I have been told a couple of times over the last couple of years that there were plans for the field to be turned into allotments as houses weren't allowed to be built there as it was the sight of an old graveyard. I have also read about the plans for allotments, I thought it was on here but I searched the forums and nothing comes up. Must have been in the paper.

Does anyone know the origin of the name Peacefield?
Is there anything legally stopping houses being build on old graveyards?
And was there ever a church on Cross Lane/surrounding area and if not could there still have been a graveyard?
Is it common for grave yards to just be turned back into fields?  ???

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2011, 01:23:02 PM »
The Manse on Cross Lane belonged to the Methodist Chapel on Church Lane until about 1966, it was the home of the Vicar.  It seems it needed a lot of work doing on to the property so they sold it and the vicar's moved to Stiles Avenue. Ray
  Thanks for that Ray, but the mystery still remains about the graveyard. Or given the location of the Manse to the Methodist Chapel it could be that the graveyard was in their parish ? Just a thought ?

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2011, 01:07:17 PM »
The Manse on Cross Lane belonged to the Methodist Chapel on Church Lane until about 1966, it was the home of the Vicar.  It seems it needed a lot of work doing on to the property so they sold it and the vicar's moved to Stiles Avenue. Ray

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2011, 09:49:09 AM »
The Manse is still there, it's a large semi on three floors.  If you turn into Cross Lane from Stockport Rd it's on your right as you walk down, before the first turning onto the Rose Hill estate, the gate post has the Manse On it.    I didn't go ahead with the purchase because at that time there was  a huge tree at the side of the house and the report from the tree people concerned me regarding a possible heave to the house should the tree die which would have been seen as an act of god by the insurance company.  The conditions in the deeds were quite strict, I had to meet with my solicitor whilst he read out the conditions which ranged from no gambling in or on the property to not using the property for prostitution or the like, the list of not to do's was never ending.the list of what we could do was to use it as a place of worship. 
The strange thing was that I went on to purchase a house on Bradshaws land (site of Marple Hall) and the deeds are the complete opposite.  The deeds for that house was that it could be used for whatever as long as it was not used as a place of worship in any form.   It's a strange old Marple isn't it  :o

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2011, 07:15:09 AM »
Have a look at the Cheshire Tithe maps, a fantastic resource here:

http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/TwinMaps.aspx

I can't see any evidence of a graveyard or church though, all the fields are recorded as pasture.

Where exactly is / was the Manse? I have never heard of that house and cannot locate it on any of the old maps at the moment.
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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2011, 10:32:05 PM »
It would be interesting to know if Peacefield School was sited on an old Grave Yard.  Around eleven years ago I was interested in purchasing The Manse ( the house of a clergyman ) which is near Peacefield school it was connected to a church but I have no idea which church it was, and it may well have been near to The Manse and demolished prior to the housing development.  Any idea how to find this information out? Maybe on an ordnance server map maybe ? Any ideas ?

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Re: Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2011, 10:07:17 PM »
Since Peacefield Primary School was bulldozed a couple of years ago, the site has remained vacant. I have heard that the intention was to build a row of houses at the front of the plot and turn the field into allotments as housing wasn't permitted to be built as the field is the site of an old graveyard (is this the reason for the name Peacefield?). Is there any news on what is happening here?



I suspect it's only being held up due to recession. As the economy recovers, although prices will not be rocketing anytime soon, a developer will have the confidence to build on the site. AS mentioned elsewhere, something being built is better than a wasteland.

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Development of former Peacefield School site
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2011, 08:24:32 PM »
Since Peacefield Primary School was bulldozed a couple of years ago, the site has remained vacant. I have heard that the intention was to build a row of houses at the front of the plot and turn the field into allotments as housing wasn't permitted to be built as the field is the site of an old graveyard (is this the reason for the name Peacefield?). Is there any news on what is happening here?