BIRCHOVER, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
  
  
• The formal dedication is to the "Holy Name of Jesus, St Michael & All Angels".
  
  
• The church had originally just been a Chapel of Ease, but in 1870 it became its own ecclesastical parish.
  
  
• The written history of this church is somewhat obscure. It was possibly a catholic chapel originally.
  
  
• The church was built in the 1700s.
  
  
• The chaple was restored in 1877.
  
  
• The church seats 100.
  
  
• There is a good photograph of the church and part of the graveyard on Flickr.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1855.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1857 on Main Street. This is now the Wesleyan Reform Church. Unverified reports tell us that the church is closed.
  
  
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1867 on Upper Town Lane. This chapel is also now closed.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"BIRCHOVER, a chapelry in the parish of Youlgreave, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 1 mile from Winster. It is in the honour of Tutbury, and duchy of Lancaster."

[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 Birchover entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.
  

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