Maps & Local History
A Brief Outline of the Holt Family (Holts of Rochdale), compiled by Walter Stott.
The Holte, Holt Hall, Raines Manuscript, Vol. 1, p. 214.
1910 Ordnance Survey map of Stubley New Hall.
1851 Ordnance Survey map of Gristlehurst and Ashworth.
Old Map of Lancashire, 1610.
Rochdale Observer, 17 November 1893 — “The Glory That Was Once Castleton Hall.”
Rochdale Observer, Old Buildings Round Rochdale, 19 June 1926, XCVI (96) — Grizelhurst Farm.
Rochdale Observer, Old Buildings Round Rochdale, 10 January 1925, XXV (25) — Ashworth Hall.
Rochdale Observer, Old Buildings Round Rochdale, 19 September 1925, LX (60) — Castleton Hall.
Rochdale Observer, 21 June 2000 — “It’s Hall Over Now for Stubley.”
Balderstone Hall Estate — “The Old Mill by the Stream,” Mansion for Sale by H. M. Haynes.
D. E. Balderston II — Hannah Haynes & David A. Tipper,
The Balderstone Hall Estate, pp. 5–7, 15.
Bridge Hall Mills, Martin Tillmanns, pp. 6–7.
Cronton — Origin and History (web).
Little Mitton Hall (online-homes.co.uk).
Old Ordnance Survey Maps — Heap Bridge, 1908.
The History of Mitton Hall, Mitton Hall Country House Hotel.
“Bury’s Oldest House Found in Heywood,” Heywood Advertiser, 10 April 1959.
“Bury’s Oldest Domestic Building,” Heywood Advertiser, 8 May 1959.
“Flagstones May Be from Gristlehurst Hall,” Bury Times, 22 March 1958.
Lancashire Sketches, Edwin Waugh, published by John Heywood, 1852.
Bury Archaeological Group — Excavations of Gristlehurst Hall.
The Grand Old Mansion: The Holtes and Their Successors at Aston Hall 1618–1864,
Oliver Fairclough.
Aston Hall: A General Guide, Oliver Fairclough.
Rochdale Observer, 16 August 1969 — “Homes of Today: The Hall Where a Room Lay Hidden.”
“Round and About,” George Drake — Stubley Hall and the Girl from the East.
Rochdale Observer, G. S. Fletcher, 1953 — Stubley Hall, Littleborough.
Lancashire Magazine, “The Spectre of Old Stubley Hall,” Nov/Dec 1994.
Property Market — Stubley Old Hall.
Lancashire Life, April 1967 — “A Hidden Room of Beauty.”
Grade II — Stubley Old Hall, Littleborough (district building entry).
“Village Life Can Be Better Living,” Rochdale Roundabout, H. C. Collins.
Rochdale Observer, 15 July 1972 — “A Straight Line: A Traffic Caused by Cows.”
Rochdale Observer, 10 August 1918 — Park for Lowerplace, Balderstone Hall Estate Purchases.
Rochdale Household Almanack, 1919 — Balderstone Hall Estate.
Heywood Notes and Queries, Vol. 4, Part 47.
Brian Meadowcroft — Rochdale Sites and Monuments Book, Balderstone Halls.
Sale of Balderstone New Hall.
A Guide to the Country Houses of the North-West, John Martin Robinson, 1991.
Historical Middleton.
Rochdale Retrospect, R. P. Taylor.
Hyde, F. E. — Blue Funnel: A History of Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool from 1865–1914.
