ASHBOURNE, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Porter, Lyndsey - The Spirit of Asbourne: 2. Landmark Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-84306-065-5.

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Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"ASHBOURN is a market town in the parish of its name, which is partly in the hundred of Appletree, and partly in that of Wirksworth; 139 miles N.N.W. from London, 46 S.E. from Manchester, 13 N.W. from Derby, and 9 S.W. from Wirksworth. The town is situate in an interesting part of the country, rather hilly, and well wooded - interspersed with rich valleys, productive meadows, and clear streams - amongst the latter is Compton brook, famous for its trout, and as having contributed to the sport of the poetical anglers, Walton and Cotton."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

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Gazetteers

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Schools

• A grammar school at Ashbourne was founded in 1585 under the will of Sir Thomas Cockayne, with William Bradburn and others; now known as Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.
  "It is also probable that a school - perhaps (a) chantry school - had also been founded prior to the Reformation at Ashbourne."
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999)

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