EARL STERNDALE, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Hine, Sheila - Around Longnor. Churnet Valley Books, 2007. Includes photographs and anecdotes from Earl Sterndale. ISBN 1-904546-47-1. Added 31 Aug 2007.

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Census

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell 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 Michael.
  
  
• The church was originally built in the 14th century.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1828.
  
  
• The church seats about 252.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1765.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"EARL STERNDALE, a hamlet in the parish of Hartington, hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 6 miles S. of Buxton, and 8 W. of Bakewell. It is situated near the river Dove, and, together with Hartington Middle Quarter, forms a chapelry. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £130, in the patronage of the Vicar of Hartington."

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

You may also wish to read the Derbyshire Village Book entry.

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• The parish of Earl Sterndale was formed from Hartington Middle Quarter in 1873.

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Societies

• The Earl Sterndale History Group meet in the Chapel on the first and third Thursdays of every month.

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