Description
Padfield, a village, formerly a chapelry, but now part of the ecclesiastical parish of Hadfield, Derbyshire, on the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 1 1/2 mile NW of Glossop town and railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Glossop. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in cloth, thread, and cotton-yarn works. There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1880.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
