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Denshaw is a village in Saddleworth—a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.〔 It lies by the source of the River Tame, high amongst the Pennines above the village of Delph, northeast of Oldham, and north-northwest of Uppermill. It has a population of around 500.〔 Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Denshaw and its surroundings have provided archaeological evidence of Stone and Bronze Age activity in the area. The name Denshaw is of Old Norse derivation, and the oldest part of the village is an ancient hamlet.〔.〕 Built up around the junction of five major roads, until the 20th century, Denshaw consisted mainly of smallholdings and a few public houses such as the Junction Inn, originally built as a coaching house for travellers. Denshaw is noted for its annual Whit Friday brass band contest. ==History== There is evidence of Stone Age activity around Denshaw; in 2004 Saddleworth Archaeological Trust objected to the construction of a wind farm on a site on Denshaw Moor which had produced more than 200 Mesolithic artefacts. Human activity in Denshaw continued in the Bronze Age, as demonstrated by the discovery of a palstave on Wall Green in 1932, when a trench was being dug for a water pipe, and some tools from Denshaw Moor, on the site of the proposed wind farm, which include a ceremonial flint dagger.〔 A Roman road may also cross the site.〔 The name Denshaw is derived from Old Norse,〔 suggesting a settlement may have existed there during the period of the Danelaw. Denshaw Fold, the oldest part of the village, is an isolated hamlet of ancient origin.〔〔 Many of the traditional stone dwellings are listed buildings and are descendants of the cluster of houses first built in the locality during the 16th century.〔 Around 1795, the Junction Inn at Denshaw was erected. It served as a posting house on the Ripponden-to-Oldham turnpike road (opened in 1798)〔 for the changing of horses and the provision of refreshments.〔Daly, J. D. (N.D.). p. 63.〕 Denshaw did not experience the same rate of urbanisation and industrialisation as its surrounding settlements during the Industrial Revolution, and it did not become a mill town or a centre of the local cotton mill boom as did nearby Rochdale, Milnrow and Oldham. However, Denshaw Vale was a calico printing factory which was "an important concern that employed a workforce of 150" during the 19th century.〔.〕 Furthermore, Denshaw was chosen as the site of a reservoir which local mills were to contribute monies and thereby use;〔Daly, J. D. (N.D.). p. 74.〕 In 1828, Rackenden Deign Reservoir was built by Denshaw to provide for 24 watermills.〔Daly, J. D. (N.D.). p. 79.〕 In 1818 an Oddfellows Lodge was erected in the village.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=imagesofengland.org.uk )〕 In 1887, Denshaw was documented having a population of 1,279. In 2003, energy company E.ON UK proposed the installation of seven wind turbines at Denshaw. This was met with opposition from the local and wider communities, culminating in the Saddleworth Moors Action Group, who were joined by environmentalist David Bellamy. The council received over 1,000 letters objecting to the proposed wind farm,〔 and although initially accepted by the former Liberal Democrat local authority, the application was rejected by Labour-controlled Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council on 1 March 2006.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=eon-uk.com )〕 On 23 May 2007, Denshaw's post office (which doubled-up as the village's only shop) was the centre of a robbery. The "tiny premises" had been under threat of closure owing to Post Office's modernisation plans〔 and has now closed. On 17 April 2008, local, national and international media reported on Denshaw's entry on Wikipedia which had been vandalised with spoof information. The entry "attracted unwelcome notoriety after it was targeted" by editors,〔 〕 although the offending material was removed after initial reports were published. The story featured on the BBC's ''North West Tonight'', a regional news programme, and later picked up by news services as far away as Pakistan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Denshaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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