CHAPEL en le FRITH, Derbyshire

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.

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Census

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

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Chapel en le Frith sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"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."

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

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Directories

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

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Gazetteers

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

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1881	4,170
1891	4,647

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