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.
Here's yet another publication by the renowned local historian Roger Bryant, a significant figure assoiated with New Mills Local History Society.