GENUKI: Eyam Woodlands, Derbyshire

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2543
1891	R.G. 12 / 2777

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

"EYAM WOODLANDS, (or Woodland Eyam), a township in the parish of Eyam, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 5 miles N. of Bakewell.".

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

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

A transcription of the section of Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland for Eyam Woodlands in 1899, by Brian Willey. Added 2 Jul 2005.

The parish of Eyam Woodlands no longer exists, but corresponded largely to the modern village of Grindleford. It was bounded by Bretton Clough in the west, included Hazelford and Leam to the north, and was bounded by the River Derwent to the east. Crossing over the river at Grindleford Bridge would have taken you into the Township of Nether Padley, or you could turn right taking the footpath towards Hay Wood (now National Trust property) crossing over the Hay Wood Brook into the parish of Froggatt.

Goatscliffe Brook was the boundary to the south, bordering the separate parish of Stoke, which extended to Stoney Middleton Brook. Both Stoke and Nether Padley are now also part of Grindleford parish.

As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.