BRADWELL, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Bradwell Historical Society - After Seth : Bradwell into the Twenty-First Century. Country Books/Ashridge Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-906789-01-5. Added 15 Sep 2008.
  
  
• Bradwell, Jabez - The Jabez Bradwell Diary. Bradwell Historical Society, 2004. ISBN 0-9529227-0-3.
  
  
• Cooper, Frank - Bradwell Fire Service - The First Fifty Years 1939-1989. Ashridge Press, 2004. ISBN 1-901214-16-8.
  
  
• Evans, Seth - Bradwell, Ancient & Modern. Country Books of Longstone, 2004. Facsimile reprint. No ISBN.

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Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell 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 Barnabas.
  
  
• The church was built in 1868.
  
  
• The church tower was added in 1889.
  
  
• The church seats 235.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1878.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Eyam.
  
  
• A Unitarian chapel was built here in 1798.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1807 and enlarged in 1878.
  
  
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1845 to replace one built earlier in 1823.

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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

"BRADWELL is a populous hamlet, in the parish of Hope, about 2 miles S.E. from Castleton. The importance of this hamlet is chiefly derived from the mining operations carried on within it, and the lead smelting Works, belonging to Messrs. Furness & Co.; hats are also manufactured here by several individuals. In 1821 the number of inhabitants in the hamlet was 1,130, and in 1831, 1,153."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The parish covers 2,119 acres and includes the lordship of Hazelbridge and the hamlets of Abney and Abney Grange. The village has its own website managed by the parish council. Several links on the site did not work when last visited.

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Directories

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

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Bradwell from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

• The parish of Bradwell was formed on 5th August 1875 from the parish of Hope.

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History

• Stashes of Roman coins have been found in the parish.
  
  
• The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

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