During the early part of 2025 I became aware of various information relating to St Matthews Church Hayfield and related topics. It was orginally sited at the confluence of the Rivers Kinder and Sett, in the locality of the well known Pack Horse Bridge. Subsquently a church was built in the centre of the village in 1848, where it is to this day - albeit this building is a rebuild of an an earlier 1405 church. Does the Phoside stream pass under the church? - read on.
The following plan from the document shows the route of two culverts from the Phoside Stream.
St Matthews Church Hayfield
Roger Bryant - St Matthews Church Hayfield
Here's yet annother interesting document, a record of Memorials at Hayfield Cemetery perpared by Keith Holford, he did a great deal of research into local history and his archive is available from Furness Vale History Society, David Easton being the prime contact.
Memorials at Hayfield Cemetery
