The Marland Family

Marland places: Twarl Hill

Twarl Hill (sometimes Twirl Hill) lies north of Ashton-under-Lyne, between Hartshead Green and Alt Hill, just to the East of the B6194 back road from Dukinfield to Shaw. For several generations it was home to a branch of  the Marlands of Hartshead, a number of them called Obadiah.

Twarl Hill Farm		Lower Twarl Hill

Photos by Geoff Marland

The Tithe Stone - from ashton-under-lyne.com, the web site for information about Ashton under Lyne

This unlikely, out-of-the-way location was once a meeting place, at a time when the area was almost completely agricultural. The stone was between the hamlets of Hartshead and Alt. At that time the ancient parish of Ashton extended to Mossley and Austerlands so the stone would have been a central point for the north of the parish.

Tithes were paid as a kind of tax, paid to the parish, comprising one tenth of what the farmer produced. There were tithe barns at Cricketts Lane, Audenshaw and Luzley for the storage of the goods paid over. Farmers would go to this stone twice a year to hand over their tithes.