Cheadle Hulme History Walk, Cheshire

If you choose to do this walk, responsibility for your walking safety in sensible shoes, clothing and road safety is entirely yours and not ours. We take no responsibility for how you undertake the walk. 

From the car park on Woods Lane,  walk down to Church Rd.  Where the High School stands, a Sports and Fireworks day was held in 1919 to celebrate the end of The Great War in 1918. A National School was built in 1873. 

Cross the road at the crossing and walk down to All Saint's Church. It was built approx 1862/3.

The Church Inn, formerly known as the Knapsack was built towards the end of the 18^th Century approx.  1790s and acquired its original name after the landlord named John Brown (Nicknamed The Nap). Opposite The Church Inn is The Governor’s House which used to be a private residence called Ravenoak. It was built in 1882 and rebuilt in 1998. This is on the site of the old Pump House. There was a large pond by the road at this site.

Walking up  Ravenoak Rd, from the Church Inn on the left after Swann Lane, you will see a line of 16th C cottages. Swann Lane is named after the old Swann Acre and Swann Meadow. Crossing the road to the left-hand side, you will see at the brow of a bridge, a foundation stone saying how the bridge was widened in 1935. 

Walking down to the mini roundabout, The War Memorial is on the right ahead. It was built in 1919 and officially ‘opened’ in 1920.

Turning left now up Station Road, on the left is the Old Police Station which was built in 1912. It is now a block of flats.

Cross Station Road. on the right is a Methodist Church. Cheadle Hulme is traditionally a strong Methodist area. Millington Hall further down on the right (now the John Millington pub) is a Grade II listed building.  It was constructed in 1683 and was part of the Lane End hamlet of Cheadle Hulme. It was built for Stockport alderman John Millington

Cheadle Hulme Library was built in 1936.

Hulme Hall dates back to the Plantagenet era having been constructed around 1419 by the Vernon family. It was extended in 1867.

1419 !  So approx. 73 years before Columbus set sail

Near the Hall on the left, before you reach a sharp bend in Hulme Hall Rd Rd, you will see a large doorway. This was the original Cheadle Hulme Fire Station. The new fire station opened in 1960.
Opposite the Old Fire Station, you will see Higham Street, which is a very old part of Cheadle Hulme. The Old Cottage on Higham Street was built during the mid-1500s, approx. Henry V111 time, and since then has been an inn called the Fox & Grapes, a farmhouse, the Reverend Joshua Brookes’ House and a cottage. The Market Square was situated here when Cheadle Hulme was called Cheadle Moseley.

 The old Hulme Hall School, a private school, has recently been demolished for a swish housing estate.  Further down on the right though is another private school.   Continue walking along Hulme Hall Road and you are back where you started. You have now done a circular walk of Cheadle Hulme South. 

These are just a few photos of where I live. I hope you like them as much as I like living here.