CHINLEY, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• The Diary of James Clegg of Chapel-en-le-Frith, 1708-55. In three parts, 1708-36, 1737-47 and 1748-55. Edited by Vanessa S. Doe. 1978 and published by the Derbyshire Record Society (although Vol 1 is out of print).
  
  James Clegg (1679-1755) was a Dissenting Minister but found his income insufficient to support himself and his growing family so he followed friends' advice and also took up medicine. He was apprenticed to a practitioner in Macclesfield for a time, then obtained a degree in Medicine from the University of Aberdeen in 1729. Both as a preacher and a doctor he was in demand over a wide area and the diary mentions journeys to Manchester, Chesterfield, Tideswell, Castleton etc. and contains records of children he baptised along the way.
  
  The books contain a wealth of material covering national, as well as local issues - for instance James even has comments on the Scots Rebellion of 1715! Arguably the definitive guide for anyone researching in the Chinley area, these volumes contain a vivid account of 18th century life.

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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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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
  
  
• The church is in the heart of the village on Buxton Road.
  
  
• There is a fine photograph of the church on Geograph.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register exists on Dusty Docs for the period 1680 - 1840.
  
  
• The Independents built a chapel here in 1711. It was later used by the Congregationalists.
  

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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

"CHINLEY, a township in the parish of Glossop, in the hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 3 miles N. of Chapel-le-Frith. Together with Bugsworth and Brownside it forms a chapelry. The village is very considerable. There is an Independent chapel, which anciently belonged to William Bagshawe, an eminent Nonconformist divine, who was called “the Apostle of the Peak”."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Chinley entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Names, Personal

• A list of Communicants at Chinley Chapel in 1728, contributed by Ivor and Val Neal. Added 14 Jul 2010.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township in Hayfield Chapelry and an extra-parochaial liberty in Derby county.
  
  
• This place was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

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