HAZLEBADGE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• The 1891 census can be found at the Wishful Thinking web site.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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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

"HAZLEBADGE, a lordship in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 3 miles N.E. of Tideswell, and half a mile S. of Bradwell. The Duke of Rutland is sole landowner."

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

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Names, Geographical

• In local dialact this place-name is likely to be prounced 'HaZZlebadge' - like 'hassle' with a 'Z' sound instead of an 's', and with the emphasis on the first syllable.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Lordship 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 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a part of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.

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