CALOW, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church chapel is dedicated to Saint Peter.
  
  
• The chapel was built in 1869.
  
  
• The spire was added in 1887.
  
  
• The chapel seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1862. For earlier records, check St. Mary's in Chesterfield.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  
  
• The Independents built a brick chapel here in 1837.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1854.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"CALOW, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county of Derby, 2 miles E. of Chesterfield, which is a station on the Midland railway. The inhabitants are employed in the neighbouring coal-works."

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

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History

• 2/3rds of the parish land was used for pasturage.
  
  
• Neil's Local History Site features History and photographs of Calow (he grew up there).
  
  
• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Calow.

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Names, Geographical

• In the 1086 Domesday Book the name is rendered as 'Kalehal'.
• This place-name is pronounced locally as 'Kay-low'.

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