page_title: Hazel Grove
section_title: Early history
hierarchical_section_title: Hazel Grove / History / Early history
caption_attribution_description: English: The Bull's Head Hotel (built 1812) and tram terminus photographed at the turn of the 19th century in Hazel Grove. Behind the trees can be seen the original "Bullock Smithy" Inn said to have been built in 1675 and which gave its name to the village before it changed to "Hazel Grove" in 1836. The site is now Torkington Park and Torkington Road.
context_page_description: Hazel Grove is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, close to the Peak District national park.
  Historically part of Cheshire, the area was known as Bullock Smithy until 1836.
context_section_description: Hazel Grove is made up of three separate townships: Norbury, Torkington and Bosden-cum-Handforth. Norbury (Nordberie) was mentioned in the Domesday Survey in 1086. Each of the townships were manorial lands. Until the 17th century, the area was known exclusively by each of the respective townships.
  In 1560, Richard Bullock built a smithy on the corner of what is now Torkington Park. This building later became the Bullock Smithy Inn and gradually the whole area became known as Bullock Smithy.
caption: The Bull's Head pub and Bullock Smithy Inn at the Hazel Grove tram terminus around 1900
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