Editing Glossop (section)

====Religion and benevolence====
[[File:Glossop6192.JPG|upright|thumb|Norfolks' Lion]] [[File:Glossop - presbytery and RC church.jpg|thumb|top|right|All Saints' Roman Catholic Chapel]]
[[Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk]], rebuilt the old parish church in 1831, built All Saints Roman Catholic chapel in 1836, improved the Hurst Reservoir in 1837, built a primary school next to the church,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1384225|desc=Duke of Norfolk's Primary School and Schoolhouse|grade=II|access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> and built the [[Glossop Town Hall|Town Hall]], whose foundation stone was laid on Coronation Day 1838.

The [[Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway]] came to Dinting in 1842, but it was the [[Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk|13th Duke of Norfolk]] who built the [[spur line]] to Howard Town, so that coal could be brought from the collieries at [[Dukinfield]]. [[Glossop railway station]] bears the lion, the symbol of the Norfolks.<ref name=birch/> Many of the street- and placenames in Glossop derive from the names and titles of the Dukes of Norfolk, such as [[Norfolk Square, Glossop|Norfolk Square]], and a cluster of residential streets off Norfolk Street that were named after [[Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk]], the first Catholic MP since the [[English Reformation|Reformation]]. (His second son was created 1st [[Baron Howard of Glossop]] and was ancestor of the post-1975 dukes.)

A two-storey Township [[Workhouse]] was built between 1832 and 1834 on Bute Street ({{gbmapping|SK043952}}). Its administration was taken over by Glossop Poor Law Union in December 1837. The workhouse buildings included a 40-bed infirmary, piggeries and casual wards for vagrants. The workhouse later became Glossop Public Assistance Institution and from 1948 the [[National Health Service|N.H.S.]] [[Shire Hill Hospital]].<ref>Higginbotham, P. (2007), Workhouses of the Midlands, Tempus, Stroud. pp. 31–32. {{ISBN|978-0-7524-4488-8}}</ref>

The mill owners, Catholics, Anglican, Methodist and Unitarian, built reading rooms and chapels. They worked together and worshipped together with their workers. The Woods, Sidebottoms and Shepleys were Anglicans and hence Tory, and they dominated every vestry, which was the only form of local government before 1866. They built four churches [[St James' Church Glossop|St James's, Whitfield]] in 1846, St Andrew's, Hadfield in 1874, Holy Trinity, Dinting in 1875 and [[St Luke's Church, Glossop|St Luke's, Glossop]]. Francis Sumner and the Ellisons and Norfolks were Catholic and built St Charles's, Hadfield and St Mary's, Glossop. The smaller mill owners were Dissenters and congregated at Littlemoor Independent Chapel built in Hadfield in 1811, but they later built a further eleven chapels.<ref name=birch/>

For decades there was rivalry between [[Edward Partington, 1st Baron Doverdale|Edward Partington]], his friend Herbert Rhodes, and the Woods and Sidebottoms. The Woods built the public baths and laid out the park. Partington built the library. Partington built the cricket pavilion, so [[Samuel Hill-Wood]] sponsored the football club that for one season, 1899–1900, played in League Division One. He and his descendants went on to be chairmen of the London club, [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]]. He was MP for High Peak from 1910 to 1929. Edward's son, [[Oswald Partington, 2nd Baron Doverdale|Oswald]], was MP for High Peak from 1900 to 1910. Ann Kershaw Woods devoted herself to Anglican education and had schools built.<ref name=birch/>