Butterworth’s Chamber Hall

An extract from J. Butterworth’s ‘An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Parochial Chapelry of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster’, published in 1817. Pages 69 through 71.

CHAMBER-HALL – Situate on an eminence, commands a very extensive prospect of the country south. Manchester appears full in the perspective. It is a stone mansion, very handsome, considering its antiquity. The cottage of Chamber, the present residence of the curate of Hollinwood, is a neat small brick building, pleasantly seated a little below the hall, with some pleasant shrubberies, walks and gardens adjoining thereto, very neatly laid out. – It was lately the habitation of Mr Arhcibald Bell. – The following initials and date are over the door of a detached building near the hall, H.W.1648. This place was anciently the residence of a family of the name of Tetlow, the first of whom married a daughter of the ancient family of the Oldhams of Oldham.

The following is a pedigree of this ancient family:-

 Butterworth

George & John Wood sold Chamber in 1646. Then it belonged to the Wrigleys and Wroes; and it is now the property of Gregg, Hopwood, Heron, and Starkey, Esqrs.