Cow Hay Wood, Poynton.

[tarboat]

Cow Hey Wood was, as mentioned earlier, just a small cluster of cottages that disappeared by the 1950s. There are still some people living locally who were brought up there. I have attaches a few images of the site.

[Ray T]

Great photos, thanks. Where did you find those? Since my original post, the site has been obliterated by the Manchester Airport Eastern Link Road.

[tarboat]

The top image is a postcard and the other two I have added to my collection of Poynton images over t the years. The site has not been obliterated by the new road as it lies to the south of the river and the road is to the north. The foundations of the buildings lie just beneath the grass in the field.

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Hello all

The map below is from Bryant's 1831 map of Cheshire and shows Cow Hay Wood.

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Maybe of interest ... another view of the same area, but in 1819. (Greenwood's map of Cheshire.)

[Ray T]

The top image is a postcard and the other two I have added to my collection of Poynton images over t the years. The site has not been obliterated by the new road as it lies to the south of the river and the road is to the north. The foundations of the buildings lie just beneath the grass in the field.

Yes, you’re right. It runs from just south of the old sausage factory and comes out just north of Brookside garden centre - across the site of the old “Hazel Grove Airport”!

The photos must, by definition, be post 1850 and the only appropriate buildings I can see on a post 1850 map are identified as Carrwood. What do you think?

[tarboat]

Yes, Carrwood is the same place. You can see the cottages there on the OS maps.

[Ray T]

Yes, I can relate the three buildings to those at Carrwood. It looks like the building on the far right of the second photograph was part of the Norbury Mill complex.

If the 1831 Bryant’s map is to be believed, the cottages were in the “Park” rather than Cow Hay Wood itself.

The problem is that exact place names didn’t tend to become established until after the first generation of Ordnance Survey surveyors had completed their task. In order to establish what something was called, they simply asked one of the locals so it depended who they asked; and it subsequently tended to stick.

[Ray T]

Taking this further and changing the subject slightly, I notice on the maps posted by Ramsin, that a “House of Correction” is illustrated to the east of Cow Hey Wood.

I must admit that I’ve never seen reference to this before (what exactly was a “house of correction”?). The name is perpetuated on the early OS maps as “Correction Farm” and the name persists today as part of Middlewood Road is still known as Correction Brow.