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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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]

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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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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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