Ryecroft is an area of
Ashton-under-Lyne, a town in
Greater Manchester,
England. It occupies a western area of Ashton.
Originally a farm held by Robert de Wright in 1422 the principal tenant at the will of Sir John de Assheton. It was not until Joseph Stanfield Grimshaw rented the area to Abel Buckley at a half yearly rent of £125 that development took place when Abel and his brother John Smith Buckley built the first of the Ryecroft Mills in the 1830s.
Hugh Mason
Hugh Mason (30 January 1817 – 2 February 1886) was an English mill owner, social reformer and Liberal politician. He was born in Stalybridge and brought up in Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne until he entered the family cotton business in ...
, social reformer and
Liberal politician owned
cotton mills in Rycroft in the 19th century, before becoming mayor and Member of Parliament for
Ashton-under-Lyne.
[Nevell (1994), p. 43.]
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Geography of Tameside
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