GENUKI: Flagg, Derbyshire

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2539
1891	R.G. 12 / 2774

Anglican church services were held in the National school-room in 1891.
The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
There was a Primitive Methodist chapel built here here in 1839.
John DARCH provides a photograph of the Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
The Unitarians had a chapel built here by 1838, but it was abandoned by them some time after 1891.
Neal THEASBY provides a photograph of the Unitarian chapel on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.

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

"FLAGG, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 5 miles W. of Bakewell."

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

Most of the parish land was used for grazing.

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

As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.