CHARLESWORTH, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Hayfield sub-district of the Hayfield Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2552 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2785 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John.
- The church was built in 1849.
- The church seats 480.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1849. See Glossop for earlier registers.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Glossop.
- We have a pop-up window of a parital extract of the Independent Church burials into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- The Congregationalists took over the former Catholic chapel here by 1891.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built in Chisworth in 1834.
- The Particular Baptists had a chapel built herer in 1835.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Hayfield sub-district of the Hayfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"CHARLESWORTH is a populous hamlet, about three miles south-west from Glossop, in that parish; it contains a place of worship for independent Calvinists, and a population (by the last returns) of 1,206 inhabitants, who are chiefly supported by the manufacturing interest."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
Chisworth and Simmondley are townships in this parish.
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Directories
- A Description of Charlesworth
has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828-9.
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Charlesworth entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Charlesworth from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Glossop, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Charlesworth.