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:
  
  

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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 here 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.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Glossop parish in Derby county but was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1894.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• In an April, 1934, boundary adjustment, this parish transferred 271 acres to Glossop Civil Parish.
  

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