There are very few 'notable' ADSHEADs prior to the 20th Century.  One Thomas ADSHEAD of Birchencliffe near Pott Shrigley in Cheshire was in 1580 the only ADSHEAD to receive a visitation by the armorial heralds (but did not qualify for a coat of arms).  Another Thomas ADSHEAD of Milwich was appointed a commissioner for Staffordshire by Oliver Cromwell in 1653 but fled to Ireland when King James was resored.   Joseph ADSHEAD published Adshead's Atlas of the Township of Manchester in 1848. The National Dictionary of Bibliography contains only two ADSHEADs, father and daughter,  viz:-   Stanley Davenport ADSHEAD who was an architect and based in the University of Liverpool  and became a pioneer on Urban Renewal. His daughter Mary was a celebrated artist who completed several murals and won the competition in 1953 to design the high value postage stamps for Queen Elizabeth 2nd. One family of ADSHEADs (probably descended from the ADHEADs of Birchencliffe) ran the Silk Dying industry in Macclesfield and went on to brew ADSHEADs ALES in the first half of the 20th century.   There are 5x ADSHEAD Roads in the world - in Liverpool, Dudley and Redcar in the UK plus two in Canada (BC and Vancouver Island). There were a few ADSHEAD farms, paricularly in Cheshire, but often these have now been converted into sets of residences with an adddress such as ADSHEAD Close or ADSHEAD Crescent. There was an ADSHEAD House in Hazel Grove and there is an ADSHEAD Hall in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee USA. In 2010 an large house ADSHEAD Park was built on the banks of the Thames near Henley by a Sir John Robert Madejski a wealthy businessman and chairman of Reading FC who understands that his father was an ADSHEAD.    There is a hamlet ADSETT in South Gloucestershire on the edge of the forest of Dean.