ASHOVER, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Wombwell, Margaret - Ashover Remembered. DCC Cultural & Community Services, 2005. No ISBN. Added 24 Aug 2005.
  
  
• Wombwell, Margaret - Barm and Battleships. DCC Cultural & Community Services, 2006. No ISBN. Added 11 Sep 2006.
  

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Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• There was a church here at the time of the Norman Conquest.
  
  
• The present church was built in 1419.
  
  
• The church seats 600.
  

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Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of All Saints Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of partially extracted Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  
  
• The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists borth had chapels here by 1857.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"ASHOVER is a village, in the parish of its name, partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, but chiefly in Scarsdale hundred; 4 miles N.N.E. from Matlock, about 7 miles S. from Chesterfield, and about the like distance N.W. from Alfreton; pleasantly situate near the rivers Amber and Milntown: it is a place of considerable antiquity having had a church at the time of the conquest, and was formerly a market-town. Coal, iron-stone, mill-stone and lead are found in the parish, and the Gregory lead mine is said to have been, at one time, the richest in the kingdom, but of late years its produce has much decreased."

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

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Ashover entry 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 Ashover from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• Rob MARRIOTT provides a list of names from the Ashover War Memorial.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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