HATHERSAGE, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Buxton, Barbara A - Hathersage in The Peak. Phillimore, 2005. ISBN 1-86077-348-6.
  
  
• Dawson, Bob and Clendon, Ryland - Hathersage Remembers. Valley Printers of Hathersage, 2000. No ISBN.
  
  
• Edgar, Jenny - An Accessible Wilderness: Life at Stanage and the North Lees Estate. Derbyshire County Council, 2005. ISBN 0-903463-73-3.
  
  
• Historical Hathersage Millennium Project - Hathersage Images of the Past. Peak Press of Chapel-en-le-Frith, 2000. No ISBN, and now sadly out of print. Updated 21 Aug 2006
  
  
• Smith, Barbara M - A History of the Catholic Chapel at Hathersage. Hope Valley Press, 1987. ISBN 0 9512614 0 1

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Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell 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 Michael.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1852.
  
• The church seats 450.
  
• On the south side of the churchyard is shown the gravestone of LITTLE JOHN, the companion of Robin Hood.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from the year 1627 for baptisms and marriages and from 1628 for burials.
  
  
• 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 Eyam.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1807.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HATHERSAGE, a village and parish, is 5½ miles E. by S. from Castleton, in the same hundred as Hope, and 4 miles from that village. The branch of wire drawing, and the manufacture of needles, are carried on here extensively; and upon the Derwent, which flows through the parish, are corn mills, and one for the making of paper."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Hathersage contains the townships of Hathersage, Bamford, Derwent (chapelry) and Outseats; to which the chapelry of Stoney Middleton is also annexed (as of 1857). White's 1857 continues: This village has long been noted for the manufacture of needles, hackles, gills, pins, cast steel wire, and millstones. Messrs Robert and David COOK first brought the needle business here from Redditch on the 14th July 1811.

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Directories

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Hathersage entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
  
  
• Sonia ADDIS-SMITH provides a transcription of the Hathersage entry from Bulmer's History and Directory of Derbyshire, 1895.

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Hathersage from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
  
  
• A transcription of the section of Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland for Hathersage in 1899, by Brian Willey. Added 2 Jul 2005.

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History

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

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Politics and Government

• 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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