ELTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• This placer was for centuries a Chapelry to Youlgreave.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints. The chapel had been formerly dedicated to Saint Margaret.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1812 after the steeple fell onto the roof in 1800.
  
  
• The church seats 250.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1690.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of All Saints Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1843.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1851.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Reform chapel was built here in 1852.

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"ELTON, a chapelry in the parish of Youlgreave, hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 1 mile N.W. of Winster, its post town, and 6 miles S. of Bakewell. It is situated at the base of Mouldridge Hill. Lead and small quantities of iron-ore are found here. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £98, in the patronage of the inhabitants. The church is a modern structure erected on the site of the old one, and is dedicated to All Saints. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel, and also schools. William Pole Thornhill, Esq., is lord of the manor. The tithes were commuted for land under an Enclosure Act in 1809."

[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 Elton 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).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1809.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.
  

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