HEATH, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The old Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints and was located in the old village site.
  
  
• The old church was taken down in 1852.
  
  
• A mortuary chapel was erected on the site of the old church, using some of its stones, in 1622, and the churchyard kept in use.
  
  
• A new Church of All Saints was erected in 1853 in the current village site.
  
  
• The church seats 250.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1682.
  
  
• Marriages at Heath, 1682-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HEATH, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 5 miles S.E. of Chesterfield, its post town, and 3 N.E. of the Clay Cross station. The village, which is small, and wholly agricultural, is situated on the road from Chesterfield to Mansfield. There are several coal-pits. The land is exceedingly fertile. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £259 4s. The living is a vicarage* in the dioc, of Lichfield, value £237."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Andrew HILL provides a photograph of the village main street on Geo-graph, taken in 2011.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Heath entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• We have the transcription of the section for Heath from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.
  

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