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CALVER, Derbyshire

"CALVER is a hamlet, in the parish of Bakewell; one mile E. S.E. from Stoney Middleton, situate upon the river Derwent. It contains a considerable cotton mill, and the neighbourhood abounds with lime-stone. The population, by the parliamentary returns for 1831, amounted to 616."

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

Bibliography

• Edwards, Brian - Calver, Curbar and Froggatt in Old Photographs. Northend of Sheffield, 2005. ISBN 0-9525064-9-1.

• Calver - A Booklet for the Millennium. Published locally, 2000.

Census

• Transcription of the Census for Calver of 1881, converted from LDS data (jointly) by Rodney Shaw and Rosemary Lockie, and included here to augment the transcribed collection of parishes of special interest.

Directories

• Directory for Stoney Middleton, Eyam, Calver and Neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of a Bagshaw's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Derbyshire for Calver in 1846 by Paul Bradford.

• Transcription of section of Directory of Sheffield and 20 miles round, 1862, for Calver by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

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

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