ASHFORD in the WATER, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of Holy Trinity Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
  
  
• Here is a list of Ashford Parish Registers available on Microfilm from LDS Family History Libraries. Film Numbers are reproduced on GENUKI by kind permission of the Genealogical Society of Utah.

  Parish registers, 1687-1959.	Microfilm Number
  Baptisms, 1687-1880 Marriages, 1692-1803, 1818-1881 Burials, 1688-1812	1041631
  Banns, 1875-1881 Burials, 1813-1881	1041677
  Baptisms, 1879-1901 Marriages, 1880-1902 Banns, 1880-1900	1751974
  Baptisms, 1899-1958 Marriages, 1899-1959	2081110
  Bishop's transcripts, 1669-1864.	Microfilm Number
  Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1669-1812	0422180
  Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1813-1864	0497375
  Transcripts
  Marriages, 1669-1767 / copied by the Society of Genealogists.	0823616

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"ASHFORD, or Ashford-in-the-Water, from being seated on the Wye, is a small village, and chapelry to Bakewell, about one mile from that town, on the road to Buxton. There are many lead mines in the neighbourhood, several of which are now working; and at the entrance of the village from Buxton are the marble-mills and show-rooms of Messrs. Oldfield & Co. established near a century ago, where the sawing of marble, by improved machinery is carried on in all its various branches, for chimney-pieces, monuments, tables, &c., from quarries on the estate of the Duke of Devonshire."

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

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Gazetteers

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

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History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Ashford by Barbarann Ayars.

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