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 Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of All Saints Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.

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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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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Ashover 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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