ATLOW, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• By 1911, the parish was re-allocated to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saints Philip and James.
  
  
• The church was built in 1874 to replace the old church of All Saints.
  
  
• The church seats 120.
  
  
• There is a photograph of the church at Flickr.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1685 for burials and baptism and from 1698 for marriages.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
  
  
• The Wishful Thinking site has some Atlow memorial inscriptions you may find useful.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• By 1911, the parish was re-allocated to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"ATLOW, a chapelry in the parish of Bradborne, and hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the N.E. of Ashbourne. It is situated in a pleasant district on the river Dove, and from a lofty hill, called Magger's Bush, not far from the village, there is a fine prospect. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £148, in the patronage of C. H. Oakover, Esq."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Bradbourne parish and became a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
  

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