The AELPHER project is led by The Manchester Museum, with funding from The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Manchester Airport Community Trust Fund, Macclesfield Borough Council, the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund and the Robert Clutterbuck Foundation.

The Manchester Museum is a department of Manchester University, and has been able to call on colleagues in other departments for advice and assistance: our thanks go to Neil Matthews, Andy Stocks and Pavlos Tsagkeis of Manchester Geomatics for assistance in building the website, together with Carolanne King (Mapping Project Manager); to Mike Taylor, Helen Stevens and David Cupit of Manchester Computing, and to Nigel John, University of Manchester Visualisation Centre.

Our thanks, in alphabetical order, go also to:

Alderley Edge Landscape Project (AELP)
Without the research of the original Alderley Edge Landscape Project and the contributions of its members, the AELPHER project would never have come into being. Our warm thanks to all of them.

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies, Cheshire Record Office
In particular Jonathan Pepler, the County Archivist, for kindly providing access to the historic maps of Alderley and Cheshire.

Cheshire Education Authority Inclusion and School Improvement Service
Jeremy Krause and Dianne Tibbitts have advised on the development of the educational material and have been responsible for the editing of all the resources.

The educational materials for the Learning Resource, which is based on The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner, have been compiled by Nigel Bielby, Griselda Greaves - from whose inspiration the whole project stems, Rachel Jones, Clare Pye, and Linda Thompson, with assistance from Robert Darby.

The staff and students of the schools in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Manchester who trialled the educational units and whose comments helped the AELPHER team to refine the Learning Resource

Derbyshire Caving Club
with special thanks to Nigel Dibben, Steve Mills, Doug Kidd, and Paul Deakin.

HarperCollinsPublishers for extracts from The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner and for permission to use the cover illustrations to the four novels which make up The Stone Book Quartet.

The Harvill Press for extracts from The Voice That Thunders by Alan Garner.

The Heritage Lottery Fund for their advice and encouragement in the setting up of this project, in paerticular Peter Fellows and John Hamer.

Matthew Hyde who kindly allowed extracts and images from his book The Villas of Alderley Edge to be used in ‘The Village and the Villas’ theme.

The National Trust
The key site at Alderley Edge is a National Trust Property. The Manchester Museum is particularly grateful to John Ecclestone, Jeremy Milln, Sula Rayska, Keith Robinson, Paul Rutter and David Standen for their help and advice.

Ordnance Survey for their kind advice and cooperation in the use of their maps and maps based on their data.

Walkley Clogs, Halifax, Yorkshire for their image of children’s clogs and clog irons.

The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths for the copy of their Indenture and for the copy of their crest.

The People of Alderley
Many more people – particularly from Alderley Edge and its neighbouring parishes of Over Alderley and Nether Alderley - have given their time and knowledge to this project. They have contributed photographs and papers to the archive, and have allowed us to interview them.

Many have helped with their time and advice, notably Denise Cowley, Neil Philip, Simon Timberlake and Ben Walsh.

There are many others too. We have tried to give all their names here. If anyone has been left out, we apologise for the omission. Please contact us at: AELP@man.ac.uk so that we can rectify the mistake.

The Museum’s AELPHER team is directed by Dr John Prag, Keeper of Archaeology and Reader in Classics and Ancient History, and co-ordinated by John Adams; the Archive is managed by Clare Pye. Malcolm Chapman, the Museum Registrar, provided website technical advice.