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Little Hucklow

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Wikipedia tells us:

"Little Hucklow is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire. Whilst it is a separate civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales District, the Parish Council is joint with Great Hucklow, and Grindlow."

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Archives & Libraries

The Chapel-en-le-Frith Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

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Census

  • The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
     
  • A transcription of the 1861 census is online at Liz Sparkes' site.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1851H.O. 107 / 2150
1861R.G. 9 / 2544
1891R.G. 12 / 2777
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Church History

  • The inhabitants of this parish used the Anglican church at Bakewell or at Great Hucklow.
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Church Records

  • The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
     
  • The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1826.
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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

"LITTLE HUCKLOW, a hamlet in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 2 miles N.N.E. of Tideswell, adjoining the above." [Recorded as HUCKLOW PARVA in Gazetteer - RL 2003]

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

Windmill is a hamlet one mile south of Littel Hucklow.  Copledale  (or Coplow Dale) lies about 1 mile NNW of Little Hucklow.  The parish lies within the Peak District National Park, about one mile west of the B6049 arterial road.

You can see pictures of Little Hucklow which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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History

  • The village held its annual feast on the last Sunday in August.
     
  • Ye Olde Bulls Head - the fifth oldest pub in England. "The pub has been home to a long line of innkepers who were also miners and farmers" - nice one! :)
     
  • Graham HOGG has a photgraph of the Bulls Head Pub on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012. The pub closed in 2005. As of 2015, an offer has been made on the property. In 2020, it re-opened as the Blind Bull.
     
  • These are the proprietors listed in various directories for The Bulls Head:
YearPerson
1855Robert WILSON
1861Robert WILSON
1891Hy, MARSH, farmer
1895Adam HOWE, farmer
1912Mrs. Hannah WHITTINGHAM, farmer
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Manors

The Manor House stands next to the Blind Bull Pub.

The Little Hucklow Manor House is a grade II* structure withEnglish Heritage.

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Maps

The Francis Frith Collection includes maps and historic photos of Little Hucklow.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK158785 (Lat/Lon: 53.303602, -1.765069), Little Hucklow which are provided by:

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Politics & Government

  • This parish was an ancient hamlet in the parish of Hope. In December, 1866, it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish.
     
  • This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
     
  • Today, the parish has a joint Parish Council with Great Hucklow, and Grindlow.
     
  • Today, the parish is part of the Derbyshire Dales District.
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

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