Greenheys  derived  its  name  from  De  Quincey's  old
home,  "  Green  Hay,"  a  picturesque  house  in  the
neighbourhood,  surrounded  by  extensive  grounds.  It
was  built  by  De  Quincey's  father  in  1791.  The  house
has  long  ago  been  demolished,  but  the  site  can  be
pointed  out  to  his  devotees,  though  the  generation
that  remembers  it  is  fast  passing  away.  Not  far
from  the  Pepperhill  Farm  lived  Geraldine  Jewsbury
with  her  brother,  in  Carlton  Terrace  ;  and  here  Carlyle
and  Emerson  visited  them  in  the  forties.  James
Anthony  Froude  also  lived  in  Greenheys  in  1850.  It
was  at  only  a  short  distance  from  Greenheys  that
Charlotte  Bronte  lodged  with  her  father,  when  he  came
to  have  the  operation  for  cataract  in  the  eyes  in  the
year  1846.  Here  Charlotte  Bronte  stayed  for  a  month,
and  while  here  she  started  her  masterpiece,  Jane  Eyre.
The  old  black-and-white  farm-house  described  by
Mrs.  Gaskell  was  a  comparatively  modern  structure
compared  with  Pepperhill  Cottage,  which  adjoined  it,
and  which  was  simply  an  old-fashioned  country
cottage,  dating  from  the  earlier  part  of  the  seventeenth
century.  Both  the  farm-house  and  the  cottage  were
pulled  down  in  the  year  1900.  Antiquarians  of  the
district  were  interested  to  find,  when  the  building  was
demolished,  that  it  had  been  constructed  of  oak
quarter  framing,  the  joints  being  fastened  with  oak
pegs,  and  the  spars  between  the  framing  being  filled
in  with  clay,  plastered  upon  bulrushes,  instead  of
laths,  to  give  the  wall  solidity.
236  MRS.   GASKELL

Another  old  black-and-white  farm-house  in  Green-
heys  Fields  was  Moss  Grove  Farm,  which  for  more
than  three  hundred  years  was  tenanted  by  a  member
of  the  Chadwick  family.
