HARTINGTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne 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 Giles.
  
  
• The church was built in the 12th century.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1858.
  
  
• The church seats 400.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538, but prior to 1650 it is very delapidated.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1827.
  
  
• A Free Methodist chapel was built here in 1850.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HARTINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 7 miles S.W. of Bakewell. The parish, which is very extensive, is divided into the Town, Middle, Nether, and Upper Quarters, with the townships of Biggin and Earl-Sterndale. It is situated near the river Dove, and the Cromford and High Peak railway passes on the E., at the distance of about 3 miles. The village, which was formerly a market town under the Ferrers, who held the castle, is still very considerable. In the reign of Charles I., it became the property of the Villiers family."

[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 Hartington 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 Hartington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

• The "old" parish of Hartington was divided into four quarters: Town Quarter, which now forms the village of Hartington, Nether Quarter, which became the parish of Biggin in 1849, Upper Quarter, which became the parish of Burbage in 1869, and Middle Quarter which became the parish of Earl Sterndale in 1873. Added 1 Feb 2007.

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History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Hartington by Barbarann Ayars.

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Military History

• In 1891, 1 Company of the @nd Volunteer Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters was here. Captain J. SHELDON, commandant.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).

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