HASSOP, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Knighton, Laurence - Hassop: A Chronology of Railway History. The Midland Railway Society, 2004. ISBN 0-9537486-5-0.

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Census

• The township 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

• There has been NO Anglican parish church or chapel in this township.
  
  
• The Roman Catholic chapel was built here in 1816 near the entrance to Hassop Hall grounds.
  
  
• The Roman Catholic chapel is dedicated to All Saints and was restored in 1886.
  
• There is a photograph of the Catholic Church on Panoramio.

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Church Records

• Anglican parishioners would attend the parish church in Bakewell.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HASSOP, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 2 miles N. of Bakewell. It is a station on the Buxton branch of the Midland railway. Hassop Hall, the seat of Earl Newburgh, was garrisoned in 1643 for Charles I. by Colonel Eyre. The Roman Catholics have a chapel."

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

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History

• The township was noted for its lead mines.
  
  
• The land in the township was primarily given over to pasturage.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Hassop by Barbarann Ayars.
  
  
• The parish feast was held on the Sunday nearest to All Saints day.

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Nobility

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, relating to Francis Eyre, Esq. of Hassop-hall by Barbarann Ayars.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township in Bakewell parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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