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 extracts
from booklet published by Longdendale Heritage Trust.
Standing almost eight hundred feet up at the head of the Longdendale Valley, with fewer than forty people living within a four mile radius this must be one of the most desolate chapels in the country. It may already be well over 500 years old, since 1487 is usually given as its foundation date. Sir Edmund Shaa, Lord Mayor of London, left money in that year to pay for a priest "in a chapel that I have made in Longdendale" who would sing his Mass and say divine service for ever more. |
 Local
rumour suggests that the fifteenth century building - probably wooden -
was at Robin-i-Meers, about three quarters of a mile further up the valley
by the River Etherow; the dedication seems to have changed from the Blessed
Virgin to St. James some time later, which might imply a new building. There
are no graves before mid-eighteenth century in the present graveyard. |
 The
railway navvies who died during the construction of the Woodhead
tunnel are buried in St James' churchyard. |
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19 August, 2007
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