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DORE, Derbyshire

"DORE is a hamlet, also in the parish of Dronfield, about a mile and a half therefrom, and nine miles north-west from Chesterfield; it is a place of no consideration in the way of trade. The number of inhabitants, in 1831, was 527."

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

Church History

• Colin Hinson is providing photographs of Parish of Norton Churches as part of GENUKI/Yorkshire (includes Dore).

Directories

• A Description of Dore has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828-9.

• Directory for Dronfield, with the villages of Beauchieff, Norton, Holmesfield, Dore, Totley, Unstone and neighbourhoods Beauchieff Abbey transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Dore and Totley by Ann Andrews. Added 6 May 2006.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Dore from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

History

• Open Dore - "A community web site provided by the Dore Village Society" - features Local History, Old photographs/pictures, &c. The Dore History section contains a fascinating 'Time Line' page, featuring such snippets as "the road between Fox House and Hathersage... was made almost impassable for carriages by the daily running of a traction engine with two huge trucks from Dronfield to various places in the Derwent valley" (1882), and a "New road is constructed at Whirlow Bridge" (1953).

• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet - a look at Abbeydale, in Dore, in times past. Contains a wealth of information about the history and development of steel and scythe-making and allied trades.

Names, Geographical

• "'Narrow pass', v. dor. The valley from which it is named was formerly on the boundary between the kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, and subsequently between Derbyshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire."
  (Ref: The Place-Names of Derbyshire, K. Cameron, Cambridge University Press, 1959)

  Although Dore was historically in Derbyshire, it is now effectively a suburb of Sheffield.

Probate Records

• Wills of Dore and Totley 1539 - 1747 is a book of 58 pages edited by David Hey, and published by the Dore Village Society in 1990. The Wills (including inventories) were transcribed by the Local History class, and the book contains 10 full transcriptions plus a list of all the other wills and inventories which were transcribed. A copy of this book has been donated to the Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group's Library. Although DARG do not have a copy, it is understood that a second volume containing 31 further wills and inventories has also been published,

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