LITTLE HUCKLOW, Derbyshire

Census

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

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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 and 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]

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Directories

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of Little Hucklow entry under Great Hucknow from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Occupations

• 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! :) Former website : www.yeolde-bullshead.co.uk.

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Politics and 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.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.
  

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