Whats In A Name - A Journey From Ignorance To Local Historian!

Earlier this year The author went for a rail journey from my place in Yorkshire to check out my mother and father 80 miles away

. The nearby station was one of those small unmanned countryside stations; my destination station was equally as tiny yet on the edges of a huge industrial city. Having lived in that place for more than 20 years previous to my wedding I knew my precise destination and naturally therefore I could get a through ticket from the conductor on the train. A single to Thatto Heath please I announced on his arrival. A look of perplexed bewilderment appeared on his face well Ive never ever encountered that one before was his reply, but I told him that there was indeed such a village. That got me considering about this place near to the place I was born and that I had never before questioned the origins of this unusual name. The following time I called I had quite a few hours to kill therefore travelled to the local history library to ascertain what I was able determine.

To start with that name, Thatto derives from Thatwall, Thetwall or Thotwall (12th century) which in turn derives from two Old English terms pote (which means fountain, water pipe or conduit) and wella (a spring or stream). The Heath element would have been included subsequently. A water source was marked on a map from 1849, the course of which can be followed heading toward nearby Ravenhead, a part of it created a boundary line.

After this I was intrigued and started out to look into the commerce of the district. In 1690 a Cheshire person rented the area planning to drain and mine the area; by 1718 the pit was a productive business. Mining activities slowed down through the subsequent handful of years, yet ended up being revived in the 1760s when John Mackay, a Scottish industrialist, arrived and by 1770, started out digging pit. Mackay in addition located a market place for the coal in the neighbouring Ravenhead Glassworks, where, in 1773 the process of plate glass production would be imported from France. Furnaces in France burned wood; in Thatto Heath by relying on the local coal, production costs were kept considerably less.

In addition to coal was the aforementioned manufacture of glass; which also started in the early Eighteenth century. Thatto Heath was concerned with the production of glass bottles, the production facility being clearly marked on the 1849 map. The factory was bought and sold a few times, being purchased, on one occasion to John Mackay, however there is no sign of how it was utilised after 1857.

Within the 1770s a short canal was created between the pits of Thatto Heath and the Plate Glass Works at Ravenhead. Its most probable creator is John Mackay; it would then have been employed to transport his coal in between the 2 locations. Yet again it is plainly noticebale on the 1849 map. By 1894 the only signals of the ancient canal are remnants, as by this time the railways had taken over transport.

I completely enjoyed my little trip into the history publications and resolved to dig further for the background of my precise birth place practically half a mile up the road - Nutgrove. This turned out to be a grove where nut trees grow, probably I may have worked that one out for myself!

by: Bruno Blackstone

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