HOPE, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Porter, William Smith - Notes from a Peakland Parish, 1923. Reprinted as facsimile by Country Books, 2002.

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Census

• The parish was in the Chapel en le Frith sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Eyam.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Peter's Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal. Added 27 Jan 2009.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1855.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Chapel en le Frith sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"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."

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

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Hope 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 Hope from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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