BRUSHFIELD, Derbyshire
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. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2539 |
| 1891 | R.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 and 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.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Brushfield entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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History
- 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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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.