Please replace as found with some rock cover to keep the little guy stay hidden!
Higher Hurdsfield is a small parish of approximately 400 households, located in a semi-rural setting to the east of Macclesfield.
Higher Hurdsfield today is clearly a very different place to what it was two hundred years ago. Very few of the houses that we see today were in existence. Instead we would have seen a highway leading to Rainow, Chapel-en-le-Frith and beyond, with an old toll bar near the end of Higher Fence Road.
There were a few cottages, small farmsteads, and near Lower Fold Farm, just below the Sunday School, there was a small local workhouse. Up the road was Hurdsfield Cottage, the residence of a local cotton manufacturer, whose views at the time would have been over a wide expanse of country in every direction – the mountains of Flint, the hills of Lancashire with the smoke from manufacturing and the lowlands of Cheshire.