Saddleworth
Major Settlement in the Parish of Rochdale
Historical Forms
- Sadelwrth l.12,e.13 Nost22d,66
- Sadelword c.1230,c.1280 Whalley
- Sadelworth c.1230 1316 Vill 1331 FF 1379 PT
- Sadelwurth 1254 Pat
- Sadelesworth 1303 Abbr
- Sadleworth(e) 1425 DodsN 1559 YDxiii,49
- Sadilworth 1487 WCR1
- Saddilworth(e), Saddylworth(e) 1541 MinAcct 1586 FF
- Saddleworth 1572 WB67
- Saddelworth 1605 FF
Etymology
The first el. is OE sadol 'saddle', used to describe a feature resembling a saddle in shape or appearance such as a ridge, but the exact application is not clear; cf. OE sadolhongra BCS 1282, Sadelhowe (Tadcaster East) pt iv infra ; v. worð 'enclosure'.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Delph, New Delph
- Castleshaw
- Diggle
- Friar Mere
- Harrop Dale
- Hilbrighthope
- Holly Grove
- Lord's Mere
- Quick
- Saddleworth Firth
- Shaw Hall, Shaw Mere
- Denshaw
Other OS name
- Alderman's Hill
- Birches
- Blindstones Moss
- Brown Hill
- Clough Ho
- Dean Head & Dean Rocks
- Foulrakes
- Friar Naze & Friar Wood
- Friezland
- Fur Lane
- Garners
- Gate Head
- Golburn Clough
- Grains
- Grange
- Grange Hey
- Grasscroft
- Great Gruff
- Greave
- Hay Bottoms
- Hind Hill
- Junction
- Lark Hill
- Nab End
- North Clough
- North End
- Northern Rotcher
- Oak Hole
- Oaklands
- Old Hey
- Old Horse Head Pile
- Oven Stones
- Ox Hey
- Ox Rake
- Pennyworth
- Pickhill Brook
- Pike Ho
- Pilling Brook
- Pinfold
- Pingle Mill
- Rough Hey
- Royle Clough
- Running Hill
- Rush Slack
- Rye Fields
- Rye Top
- Saddleworth Fold
- Sail Bark Rocks
- Salterhebble
- Sandbed
- Scout
- Settstones Lane
- South Clough
- Spring Head
- Spring Hill
- Stable Clough
- Stains
- Standing Stones
- Lower Stones & Upper Stones
- Stubbing
- Sugar Loaf
- Summer Hill
- Turney Bank
- Wade Hill
- Wain Stones
- Wall Hill
- Warlow Pike
- Warmsey Clough
- Warrock Hill
- Warth Mills
- Water Clough
- Waters
- Waterside
- Weakey
- Well Head
- Wood
- Woolleys
- Woolroad
- Yarns Hill
- Yeoman Hey
- Yew Tree
- Ashes Lane
- Ashfield Ho
- Austerlands
- Back o' th' Low
- Bar Stacks
- Black Leach
- Blunder Hall
- Brown Hill
- Den Hill
- Harbour Hill
- New Houses
- Walkers
- Adam's Cross
- Birchen Clough
- Bleak Hey Nook
- Brow
- Church Bank
- Dale
- Dry Bridge
- Frenches
- Green Brow
- Hill Top
- Holden
- Hollin Bank
- Hollin Brown Knoll
- Hollin Hall
- Hollin Heys
- Hollins
- Holme Clough
- Horest Fm
- Howels Head
- Hull Brook
- Hunters Hill
- Husteads
- Kiln Green
- Kinders, Kinder Stones
- Knarr
- Knoll, Knoll Top
- Knott Hill
- Knowl
- Laceby
- Ladcastle
- Laddow Moss
- Ladhill
- Marsh
- The Nook
- Oaken Hill & Oaken Lee
- Pots & Pans
- Round Hill
- Shaws
- Spring Field
- Tame Croft
- Upperwood Ho
- Whams
- Woodmans
- Carrhouse Fm
- Claytons
- Clough Head
- Cookcroft
- Cold Ho
- Cover Hill
- Grotton Head
- High Lee
- High Moor
- Intake
- Knowsley
- Lane
- Load Hill
- Load Hill Platting
- Lowbrook
- Lydgate
- Higher Thorps & Lower Thorps
- White Gates
- Windy Harbour
- Wood Brook
- Acker
- Alphin
- Armit Rd
- Ashway Gap & Ashway Hey
- Badger Edge & Badger Slack
- Bakestone Delph
- Ballgrove
- Bank Clough & Bank Gap
- Bell Yard
- Bent
- Bentcliffe
- Bentleys
- Beswick
- Blea Green
- Board Hill
- Boarshurst
- Boggart Stones
- Boothstead
- Bowk Ho
- Briarfield
- Brimmy Croft
- Broad Greave Hill
- Broadhead
- Broadhead Moss & Broadhead Noddle
- Broad Meadow
- Broad Stones
- Broadstone Hill
- Chew Hills
- Coal Clough
- Colt Hill
- Cote Intake
- Cotemans
- Court Mill
- Cowards
- Crane Knoll
- Crawshaw Hey
- Crib
- Critchley Cottage
- Crompton Knoll
- Crook Gate
- Cross
- Dowry Castle Hill
- Fox Stone
- Green Ash
- Hearth Hill Fm
- Hoar Clough
- Lamb Knoll
- Lee Cross
- Liftrey Dike
- Linfitts, Linthwaite
- Load Clough
- Long Clough
- Long Ridge
- Low Gate Lane
- Lumb Hole Brook
- Lurden
- Manns
- Mantley (Gate)
- Marled Earth
- Martin Ho
- Mere Clough
- Middle Edge Moss
- Mill Croft
- Moor Croft
- Moor Dale
- Moor Gate, Moor Lane
- Mountain Fm
- Mow Walls Lane
- Mytholme Bridge
- Nut Bottom
- Pob Green
- Rough Knarr
- Shaw Gate & Shaw Rocher
- Spa Clough
- Swainscroft Fm
- Upper Mill
- Wham
- Woodbrow
- Cabin
- Doctor Ho
- Herds Low
- New Royd
- Warm Hole
- Bill o' Jacks
- Birch Scar
- Bird Grain
- Black Chew Head
- Brockley Moor
- Brun
- Brun Moor
- Burnedge
- Butts Lane
- Calf Hey
- Carr, Carrcote
- Cartshead
- Castle Hill
- Causeway Sett
- Charnel Holes
- Cherry Clough
- Chew Brook
- Dacres Hall
- Delph Greave
- Delph Slack
- Den Quarries
- Denshaw Moor
- Dick Hill
- Diggle Brook, Diggle Edge
- Diggle Lee
- Dish Stone
- Dob Cross
- Dodle
- Dolefield
- Dove Stone Wood
- Dowry Green
- Dry Clough
- Dry Croft
- Dunge Booth
- Edge End &, Edge Hill
- Fairbanks
- Fair Springs
- Featherbed Moss
- Fernhill
- Fern Lee
- Fernthorpe Hall
- Ferny Holes
- Field Ho
- Greaves
- Greenfield
- Greenfield Brook
- Green Grain
- Greenmans
- Green Oak Fm
- Grove Ho
- Haigh Gutter
- Halls
- Hanson Ho
- Harrop Cote, Harrop Edge, Harrop Green
- Haw Clough
- Hawk Yard
- Hawthorpe Hall
- Heathfields
- Heights
- Hezzlegreave
- Hey
- Hey Barn
- Heys
- High Grove Ho
- High Stile
- The Hill
- Hill End
- Hills Fm
- Intake
- Lane Head
- Marshlands
- Noon Sun (Hill)
- Platt Hill
- Pottery Hill
- Priest Clough
- Rag Stone
- Rams Clough
- Rapes (Hill)
- Raven Stones
- Readycon Dean
- Reaps
- Ridge
- Rimmon Pit Clough
- Rocher Moss
- Settling Well
- Shepherds Green
- Sherbrook
- Ship Fm
- Slack Gate & Slack Head
- Slades (Barn)
- Slate Pit Moss
- Sunfield
- New Tame & Old Tame
- Tame Water
- Tang
- The Thorns
- Thurston Clough
- Thurstons
- Tunstead
- Turner Hill
- Wellihole
- Wharmton
- White Brook
- White Gate
- White Ho
- White Lee
- Wibsey
- Wicken Clough
- Wickens
- Wildcat Low
- Wilderness
- Wimberry Stones
- Butt Fm
- Crawshaw Bent
- Earnshaw Head
- Green Leach
- Grotton
- Mason Row
- The Pastures
- Quick Edge Fm
- Red Ho
- Roebuck Low
- Round Hill
- Scout Head
- Shelderslow
- Stone Breaks
- Strines
- Thornlee