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HOPE - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

HOPE is a township and village (once a market-town), in the parish of its name, in the same hundred as Castleton, about 1 mile from that town, and about 5½ N. from Tideswell. The moors in this parish have afforded, in many instances, extraordinary properties in the preservation of human bodies buried in them; some having been discovered, after thirty years' interment, perfect and free from decomposition.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, is an embattled structure, with a tower surmounted by a spire: the living is a vicarage, in the gift, of the dean and chapter of Lichfield; the present incumbent is the Rev. Francis Orton. Here is a small free school, for teaching reading and writing, to a limited number of children, established about a century ago. A market was anciently held here, and renewed by grant in 1735, but has fallen into disuse for several years. The fairs take place on the 28th of March, for cattle; the 13th of May (called 'the great fair'), for cattle, cloth, ironmongery, and pedlery: and another on the 2nd Tuesday in September, for cattle.

Hope parish contained, in 1821, 4,102 inhabitants, and in 1831, 3,927, of which last number 426 were returned for the township.

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie ©1999]

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