HADDON, Derbyshire

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

• A Chapel of Ease was erected in Over Haddon in 1880.
  
  
• The Anglican chapel is dedicated to Saint Anne.
  
  
• The chapel seats 80.

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Church Records

• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Reform chapel was built in Over-Haddon before 1870.
  

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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

"HADDON, (Over and Nether Haddon) townships in the parish of Bakewell, county Derby, 2 miles S.E. of Bakewell. They are situated on the river Wye, and contain several good houses. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1806. At this place is Haddon Hall, the old baronial seat of the Vernons, one of whom, Sir George Vernon, is celebrated in story as "King of the Peak". The whole building, which is still nearly perfect, is situated on a limestone rock overlooking the river Wye."

[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 Haddon entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

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

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History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Over- and Nether-Haddon by Barbarann Ayars.
  
  
• The Lathkil Hotel (older names are "The Miner's Arms" and "The Lathkil View Hotel") has been in the parish since 1828. The Hotel is still in operation and has its own website. Here are the names associated with the Hotel in the old directories:
  

Esther WILDGOOSE was born in Ballidon, DBY, circa 1816. She was the wife of Francis, listed above in 1870. Their daughter Annie was born in Haddon Grove circa 1847.

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Manors

• Dave NAPIER provides a photograph of the inside of Haddon Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.

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Politics and Government

• Nether Haddon was an ancient township in Bakewell parish in county Derby and was created as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• Over Haddon was an ancient township in Bakewell parish in county Derby and was created as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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