ABNEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church Records

• The webpage author could find no mention of an Anglican church in this place.
  
  
• Most Anglican parishioners would have been baptised or married in Hope parish.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel here in 1857.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837. But Abney did not become a Civil Parish until late in 1866.
  
  
• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"ABNEY and ABNEY GRANGE, a joint township, consisting of these two small hamlets in the parish of Hope, and hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles N.E. of Tideswell. At the time of Domesday Survey this manor belonged to William Peveril, or Peveril of the Peak."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

There is an online description of Abney at the Peak District Info website.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Abney and Abney Grange entry under Bradwell from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Abney and Abney Grange from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• There's a bit of pre-history at Smelting Hill Circle.
  
  
• By 1857 the mines had been closed for a number of years and the hamlets were in decline.
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient hamlet in Hope parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.
  
  

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