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CHAPEL en le FRITH, Derbyshire

"CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH is a market-town and parish, in the hundred of High Peak, 167 miles from London, 20 S.E. from Manchester, 21 N.W. from Sheffield, 23 W. by N. from Chesterfield, and 6 N. from Buxton. Its name signifies the 'Chapel-in-the-Forest; from the Saxon word frith, a forest or wood - the church or chapel, which originated the town, having been built within the forest of the High Peak. The town is neat and pleasantly situate on the declivity of a hill, rising from an extensive and fertile vale, surrounded by an amphitheatre of lofty eminences that bound this extremity of the county." [There is further information for Chapel en le Frith]

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

Bibliography

• Smith, Mike - The Book of Chapel en le Frith : A Community History of the Parish. Halsgrove, 2003.
  
  • ISBN 1-84114-234-4
  A companion volume to The Book of Bakewell Show and The Book of Edale, for which Reviews are available.

• The contents of William Braylesford-Bunting's book Chapel-en-le-Frith, Its People and its History (1939) has been transcribed by Rob Marchington.

Church Records

• Some parish records of Chapel en le Frith are available in the searchable database of GenoGold.

• A transcription of Chapel en le Frith Marriages, 1621-1837, taken from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 12 is available by courtesy of Marjorie Ward.

Directories

• A Description of Chapel en le Frith has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.

• Transcription of a Description of Chapel en le Frith and Directory for Chapel-en-le-Frith, with Whaley Bridge (Cheshire) and neighbourhoods from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Chapel en le Frith from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Genealogy

• Chapel en le Frith with Chinley Sources - part of Marjorie Ward's North West Derbyshire Sources - a developing site with new material being added all the time.

Manors

• Accounts of Ford Hall, Whitehough & Bradshaw Halls, The Ridge, Marsh & Slack Halls, taken from Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Volume I 1892 (The High Peak) by Joseph Tilley, transcribed/OCR'd by Rosemary Lockie.

Population

• Census Statistics - the population figures for the township of Bradshaw Edge are as follows:-

  1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891
  1329	1591	1708	1786	1850	1891	2518

  1871+ - See Chapel en le Frith (figures not available yet)

  The above census statistics have been contributed by Joseph Platt.

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