BARLOW (GREAT BARLOW), Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• This place was a chapelry for centuries to Staveley parish.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
  
  
• Sources date the construction of the church to 1150.
  
  
• The church seats 243.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1573.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials *partially) extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Dronfield.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"BARLOW, (or Great Barlow) a chapelry and township in the parish of Staveley, in the hundred of Scarsdale, and county of Derby, 4 miles to the N.W. of Chesterfield, its post town. Little Barlow is a hamlet of this township The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £95, in the patronage of the Rector of Staveley. There is a small endowed free school."

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

The parish has its own website to welcome you. Or, you can try the About Barlow website.

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Directories

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

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History

• The parish is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book.
  
  
• The traditional annual parish feast was held on the second Sunday in August. A "well dressing", with flowers, also takes place in August, usually on a Wednesday. The well dressing has been a tradition since 1615.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Barlow by Barbarann Ayars.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment reforms, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.
  

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