LONGSTONE, Derbyshire

Bibliography

Thornhill, Robert - Longstone Notes. Edited by M L Stuart and published by Longstone Local History Group, 1992.
Robert Thornhill was born in 1892. He always had a keen interest in local and family history, and on his death, in 1973, the archives and papers he'd collected during his lifetime were presented to the Derbyshire Record Office. This publication reproduces his "Notes on Longstone Church, Village and People"; with two Appendixes. The first Appendix is a summary of the Will of the author's great grandfather, another Robert Thornhill who died in 1820; the second Appendix lists a selection of Robert Thornhill's other publications - mainly articles in Derbyshire Miscellany, the bulletin of the Local History Section of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society.

Note: This may be out of print, but Local Libraries in Derbyshire should have copies. My copy is a slim A5-size booklet with a blue cover.

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Census

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell 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 Giles.
  
  
• The church was constructed in the 13th century.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1873.
  
  
• The church seats 300.
  
  
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. Giles Church at Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
  
  
• John SALMON has a photograph of the church interior at Geo-graph, taken in 1991.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1638.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Giles's Church (also including Sheldon) is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
  
  
• Here is a list of Longstone Parish Registers available on Microfilm from LDS Family History Libraries. Film Numbers are reproduced on GENUKI by kind permission of the Genealogical Society of Utah.

• The Bishops' Transcripts covering the period 1665-1864, are known to have gaps 1667-69; 1681-83; 1750-53; 1757-67.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
  
  
• There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built here before 1891.
  
  
• There was a Congregationalist chapel built here before 1891.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

To my mind, at least, LONGSTONE tends to be synonymous with Great Longstone [Rosmary Lockie, 2010].

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Directories

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Great Longstone entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Great Longstone from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Longstone by Barbarann Ayars.

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Military History

• There is a photograph of the War Memorial on Main Street on the Traces of War website.
  
  
• A different view of the same War Memorial exists on Flickr.
  
  
• The War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure with British Heritage.
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

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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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