Whitle is a historic hamlet in Derbyshire. The Whitle area is now part of the town of

New Mills New Mills is a small town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, south-east of Stockport and from Manchester at the confluence of the River Goyt and River Sett, Sett. It is close to the border with Cheshire and above the Torrs, a ...

, and lies between the centre of the town and the hamlet of

Thornsett Thornsett is a hamlet within the civil parish of New Mills in Derbyshire. It lies between New Mills and Hayfield, and includes a primary school, a nursery, two pubs, a band room and a cemetery (created in 1993). It is roughly southeast of centr ...

. The main approach to the hamlet is via an unadopted road from the south, connecting with Apple Tree Road. This continues north-east as a public bridleway and private driveway to Mellor Road. Public footpaths lead north-west and WSW across New Mills Golf Course, which is immediately west of the hamlet.

History

The placename is thought to derive simply from "white hill". At one point, Whitle was part of the Lordship of

Longdendale Longdendale is a valley in the Peak District of England, north of Glossop and southwest of Holmfirth. The name means "long wooded valley" and the valley is mostly in the counties of Derbyshire and Greater Manchester. Geography The eastern par ...

. In 1713 the hamlet was included in the newly formed township of

and to this day it remains within the town's boundaries. The ( 7 Geo. 4. c. ''4'' ) refers to, and maps, four distinct areas within Whitle: New Mills Lee, Whitle Bank, Shaw Marsh and Broadhurst Edge. By comparing maps and written records of the Whitle enclosure, Bryant shows that, in 1826, the area contained around 20 buildings. These buildings included "Stafford's Mill", "Barnes's Mill", a "Whitle School" (on the site of 41–45 Mellor Road) and also a "

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" (set back from the southeastern end of present-day

Watford Watford () is a town and non-metropolitan district with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne, Hertfordshire, River Colne. Initially a smal ...

Road). Close to the Poor House a

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was sited on what is now known as Batemill Road. All of the major surviving buildings in Whitle were

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in 1977: Whitle Farmhouse and its barn; Bower House and its barns; Fold House; Whitle Cottage; Hilltop Cottage; and Century Cottage, dated 1666.

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Hamlets in Derbyshire Towns and villages of the Peak District New Mills {{Derbyshire-geo-stub

History

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