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Census

  • The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1851 H.O. 107 / 2150
1861 R.G. 9 / 2543
1891 R.G. 12 / 2777
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Church History

  • The webpage author could find no evidence of a church or chapel in this location.
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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 & Travel

"HIGHLOW, a township in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 4 miles S.E. of Hope, and 3½ N.W. of Stoney Middleton. The Duke of Devonshire is the sole landowner."

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

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of Highlow Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK230796 (Lat/Lon: 53.312841, -1.656252), Highlow which are provided by:

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Politics & Government

  • This place was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
     
  • This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
     
  • The parish now funtions as a member of the Derbyshire Dales District).
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chapel-en-le-Frith petty session hearings.
     
  • As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.