CRICH, Derbyshire

Archives and Libraries

• Crich is home to the National Tramway Museum within Crich Tramway Village.
  
  
• Also located at Crich Tramway Village is the Eagle Press, a small museum dedicated to Letterpress Printing.
  

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Bibliography

• Dawes, Geoffrey - Crich Tales. Pipsqueak, 2004. No ISBN.
  
  
• Dawes, J G (Geoff) - A History of Crich. Landmark, 2003. ISBN 1-84306-082-5
  

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Census

• The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  
  
• The 1841 census Index of Names is available at the Crich Parish site.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Mary's Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"CRICH is a parish, partly in the hundreds of Morleston and Litchurch, Scarsdale, and Wirksworth: the village is about five miles east of Wirksworth. and four west from Alfreton. The site of it is very lofty, and from the adjacent stand or prospect tower, which is a land-mark for a great distance around, a very extensive view is obtained. There are numerous stone quarries in the neighbourhood, and lime burning is largely carried on here."

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

Visitors should get current information from Crichweb.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Crich 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 Crich from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• For a photograph of the Crich War Memorial and the names on it, see the Crich Parish site.

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Names, Geographical

• Locals pronounce the name as "CRY-ch".
  
  
• The name Crich is from the Celtic Crug for "a mound of hill". In 1009 the name is rendered as Cryc, In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Crice.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish and township in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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