Horsedge Hall, conjectured to have been originally Hall Edge, ie. the Hall on the Edge, is within a short distance of the town on the north-east side. This mansion, now divided into cottages, which are in a state of decay and neglect, seems to have been erected by a younger branch of the family of Oldham, of Oldham, probably at a period prior to the abandonment by the local family of the Hall, of Hall Bottom (Holebottom). In the fifth of Edward the Second, 1312, VVilliam, son of Henry de Oldham, conveyed lands to Geoffery de Chadderton, in Scoller-lane, in vill de Oldham, and the conveyance was witnessed by Thomas de Hopwood, Nicholus le Clericus, and Geoffery and Adam de Chadderton. Richard Oldham became Abbot of Chester, 1452, and Bishop of the Isle of Man, 1472. The Oldhams probably quitted this place in the latter part of the fifteenth century. There was a Joseph Oldham, farmer, resident at Glodwick, as late as 1725. It appears from the family MSS. of the Cudworths, that John Taylor held lands in Over Horsedge, and Rudleys, in 1553, - a Robert Taylor was of Oldham, in 1486. The property was in the hands of the Taylor family in 1615 and 1633. John Taylor, of Oldham, gentleman, was required in 1646 to pay the sum of £l0 into the public treasury to redeem his estate from sequestration, owing to his disaffection to Parliament. In 1688 William Langley, gentleman, seems to have been the possessor. At what time the Nuttalls became possessed of the place is not clear: they were descended from the Nuttalls, of Nuttall, in Tottington. Thomas Nuttall, of Horsedge, gentleman, by his will, dated March 14, 1726, not only gave a yearly rent charge of £3 to Oldham Grammar School, but £3 yearly to educate poor children of Tottington. Margaret, the heiress of this Thomas Nuttall, gentleman, transferred the property by marriage to Adam Bagshaw, Esq., of Wormhill Hall, Derbyshire, who died May 24th, 1729, leaving an only child, Margaret, married to Robert Radcliffe, Esq., of Fox-Denton, whose family thus became possessed of Horsedge, and in whom it is still vested.

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