HAYFIELD, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Hayfield sub-district of the Hayfield 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 Matthew.
  
  
• The church was built in 1336.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1818.
  
  
• The church seats 850.
  
  
• The church is located, naturally enough, on Church Street.
  
  
• There is a photograph of the church on Geograph.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1622.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Glossop.
  
  
• Saint John's Methodist church was built in 1782.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HAYFIELD, an independent chapelry, generally included in the parish of Glossop, is four miles S. from Glossop, and about the same distance N. from Chapel-en-le-Frith. It is a populous manufacturing district, having several large cotton spinning factories, and one for woollen goods. The church is a handsome modern edifice, rebuilt by the inhabitants in 1818, and the interior is much admired for its neatness. The living is a perpetual curacy, and the resident freeholders have the privilege of nominating the minister."

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

The A624 bypass runs throught the centre of the village. There is frequent bus service to Glossop.

The parish has its own Website with more information.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Hayfield 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 Hayfield from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Glossop, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Hayfield.

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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.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became the center of the Hayfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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