3.28 The Hath ersage Encl osure Award wa spassed in 1830 (Buxton, 2005), although by nowthe prima ry employment fo r the inhabita nts wa smost likely to be industry.3.29 The earliest re corded scho ol i nHathersage was set up in 166 9 b y WilliamRonksley (M cGuire et al, 2000 ). In 1 718 G eerGreen Sch ool, on Cog gers L ane in Outseat s(outside the Conservation Area), was erected bypublic subscription; the school wa s clo sed in1807 an d ha s sin ce be en demoli shed. A newsubscription school opened in 18 04, o n the siteof the Pari sh Roo m, on Main Road. This wasclosed when St. Mich ael’s Church of Englan dSchool o pened in 185 8 a s the Natio nal School;St. Michael’s becam e a prima ry scho ol whe nHope Valley College opened in 1958.3.30 In 1825 a Catholic Sun day School wasopened at the we st end of the rebuilt Catholi cChapel; this became a Catholic d ay scho ol in1846 and was su perceded by a new schoolbuilding which opene d in 1864 at the foot ofJaggers L ane. The school move d to theWesleyan In stitute buildin g, whi ch ha d repla cedthe Atlas Works, in 1 955 a nd b ecame St.Michael’s Catholic Primary School, finally closingin 19 84 (McGuire et al, 2000). Th e building i snow St. Micha el’s Envi ronmental EducationCentre.3.31 A number of private schools also existedwithin th e vill age at vari ous tim es, i ncluding: aCatholic preparatory school at Rock House in theDale, from 1 851 until at least 187 9; a mixedCatholic preparatory school located on the site ofthe present-d ay ca r-park; and Vall ey S chool, amixed boa rding and d ay sch ool, at Moorl andHouse on Station Road from 1916 until 1947.3.32 A Methodist Chapel was built in 1807 ,located on th e Main Ro ad, at aro und t he sametime as the Catholic Chapel was re-opened. Theoriginal Meth odist Chapel wa s demolished i n1939 to make way for the existing chapel.3.33 The Hope V alley Rail way line, linki ngSheffield an d Man chester, wa s co mpleted in1894, and i s clearly m arked on t he 18 98Ordnance S urvey map, severi ng the VictoriaWorks on Mill Lane from the rest of thesettlement, with the feet of its viaduct sittingwithin the ori ginal mill-pond of the Works. TheStation Hotel on Station Road, now t he LittleJohn Hotel, opened with the arrival of therailway, replacing the earlier Butcher’s Arms.3.34 A great man y chang es h ave occurre dsince the beginning of the twentieth centu ry.These can be clearly seen through a comparisonof the 1898 Ordn ance Survey Map and thepresent-day map (Figures 7 and 2). At the end ofthe ninetee nth centu ry, the settleme nt was stillquite contai ned, with two main clusters ofdevelopment at the north-ea stern an d south -western en ds: the fo rmer refle cting th e ori ginalsettlement around Camp Green and the church,with a small development along the Dal e Brook,including the Dale Mill complex; the latter anindustrial group, mostly of mills and associatedworkers’ terrac ed c ottages, in the vic inity of theHood Bro ok and it s confluence with the Dal eBrook. These two clusters were joined by a fairlylow-density linear development alo ng MainRoad: the so uth side of Main Ro ad was moresparsely developed than the north, consisting oftwo farms and a small group of b uildings aroundthe Methodi st Cha pel, with a few propertiesopposite Hall Farm at t he e astern end. Th eboundary b etween the settleme nt and th esurrounding landscape was clearly differentiated,the settlem ent edge d by tree s, allot ments andfields, with fi elds edging Main Road i n pla ces,particularly on the south side.3.35 An aerial p hotograph o f Hathersagedating from the early 193 0s (see P3. 5 below)shows that although a garage has been added tothe so uth si de of Main Road a nd the NatWestBank has been constructed on the north side, the1898 d ensity and form of the settle ment stillappears la rgely unchan ged, with fiel ds e dgingthe road on the south side and allotments on thenorth side.P3.5 Aerial photograph of Hathersage from the1930s (reproduced with the kind permission of D.Upton)3.36 As the farm s within th e village haveceased to fu nction, the fi elds surrounding themhave lost th eir ag ricultural purp ose and havebeen devel oped. With the demolitio n of theoriginal Methodist Chapel on Main Road and theinfilling of the spa ces between the two f arms ateither end, there i s now an almost continual lineof buildings along the south side of the road a ndits original low-densit y, partly-agriculturalcharacter has been lost. The extent of twentiethcentury infill can be clearly seen on theArchitectural Development map (Fi gure 8). Thehousing development at The Crofts, just outsidethe Conservation Area to the north of Main Road,has been built on Allotme nt Gardens, shown onthe 1898 map an d on the 19 30s a erialphotograph (P3.5), edge d on their we stern sid e10
y the tree-li ned Hood Brook; the larg e bend inthe bro ok b ehind the G eorge Hotel, within theConservation Area, h as been straightened sincethe Conservation Area was designated.3.37 The most marked ch ange whi ch hasoccurred during the late r twentieth century is theextensive development t hat ha s ta ken pla cebeyond the Conservation Area bou ndary, to thenorth-west a nd south of the settlem ent. Thesemodern d evelopments have had a significantimpact on t he overall hi storic integ rity of thesettlement, redu cing the physical a nd visualdemarcation between the original village and itssurrounding fields, so that its historic form can nolonger be e asily determi ned. The e states havealso had a significant impact on the setting of theoriginal settlement: in the nineteenth century onlythe Church, on high er ground, would have beenclearly visib le from most di rections whenapproaching the village; no w the modern estatesrise up the hills to the west and north-west and tothe south and south-east, so tha t thesedevelopments have become the m ost prominentfeatures of the settlement.3.38 As well as the new housing estates, thetwentieth century expan sion also in cludes a firestation, a b owling green, a swimmin g pool (oneof few re maining op en-air heated swimmingpools left in the country ), the Memo rial Hall,banks and shops.11
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