HEAGE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The parish church was long just a Chapel of Ease under Duffield. The original chapel was built of wood, but was destroyed by a storm in June of 1545.
  
  
• The chapel was rebuilt in 1661.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Luke.
  
  
• The church was repaired and enlarged in 1836.
  
  
• The church seats 450.
  
  
• A Chapel of Ease to St. Luke was built in 1890 in Ambergate.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1819 for baptisms and 1847 for marriages and burials. See Duffield for earlier entries.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register baptisms in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here before 1857.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a small chapel in Toadmoor hamlet before 1857.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here before 1857.
  
  
• The Free (Reform) Methodists built a chapel here before 1857.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HEAGE is a township and village, in the parish of Duffield, and hundred of Appletree, 15 Miles N. from Duffield, about the like distance S.S.E. from Alfreton, and 3 N.E. from Belper. There is a mineral spring in the neighbourhood, efficacious in ulcerous complaints and for stopping inward bleeding. A chapel under the establishment, and several others for dissenters of various denominations are in the parish. The living of Heage is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the vicar of Duffield. The township contained, according to the returns, made in 1831, 1,845 inhabitants."

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

The village stands near the River Derwent. The parish covers 2,600 acres and contains the hamlets of Nether Heage, Cackleton, Toadmoor, Ambergate, Black-Horse, and Boothgate. The River Amber serves as the northern border of the parish. The name derives from "High Edge". The village is noted today for its restored six-sail windmill from the late 1700s.

Nether Heage has its own website designed more for visitors than family historians.

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Directories

• A Description of Heage has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828-9.
• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Heage 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 Heage from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military History

• Nether Heage was once the site of a POW camp.

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial inside St. Luke's Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials.
  
  

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Names, Personal

• Lieut.-Col. Albert Frederic HURT, of Alderwasley Hall, was lord of the manor in 1890. Born in Yeldersley, Ashborne, DBY, in 1835, he had a distinquished military career and died in March, 1907.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Duffield parish in Derby county but was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• In an April, 1934, boundary adjustment, this parish gained 233 acres transferred from Crich Civil Parish.
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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