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From: John BARTHOLOMEW's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887):

"Brushfield, township, in par. and 4 miles NW. of Bakewell, N. Derbyshire, 648 ac., pop. 31."

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Archives & Libraries

The Bakewell Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

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Census

  • The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1851H.O. 107 / 2149
1861R.G. 9 / 2539
1891R.G. 12 / 2773
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Church History

  • The webpage author could find no record of a church or chapel in Brushfield. The nearest Anglican churches are in Tideswell and Eyam.
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Civil Registration

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

"BRUSHFIELD, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the N.W. of Bakewell."

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

The A6 motorway cuts through Brushfield. The River Wye snakes around the east and north sides of the parish. The parish covers only about 650 acres.

Bill BOADEN provides a photograph of Brushfield on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.

You can see pictures of Brushfield which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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History

  • Most of the land in the parish was turned over to pasturage.
     
  • The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Ashford, transcribed by Barbarann AYARS, includes a portion on Brushfield.
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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK163719 (Lat/Lon: 53.243932, -1.756459), Brushfield which are provided by:

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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient Township in the parish of Bakewell in Derby county and it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
     
  • This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
     
  • In April, 1934, this parish gained 4 acres from Little Longstone Civil Parish.
     
  • The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, They hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political matters.
     
  • District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings.
     
  • As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.
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Schools

Children of this villge attended the school at Taddington.