BLACKWELL by CHELMORTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2543 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2777 |
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Church Records
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Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"BLACKWELL, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the E. of Buxton. The river Wye flows near this place."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
There is a photograph of the parish at Geograph
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Blackewell entry under Taddington from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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History
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Blackewell by Barbarann Ayars.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient township in Taddington parish in Derbyshire.
- The township was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
- 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.