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Millers Dale

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Archives & Libraries

The Buxton Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

TAlternatively, the nearby Tideswell Library also has a Local History section and a Family History section to assist you.

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Census

  • The hamlet was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1861R.G. 9 / 2544 & 2548
1891R.G. 12 / 2777
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Church History

  • The church here was a chapel of ease to Tideswell, built in 1880.
     
  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Anne.
     
  • The chapel seats 120.
     
  • Ashley DACE has a photograph of St Anne's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2012.
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Church Records

  • There is a CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St John the Baptist's Church Tideswell contains entries for Millers Dale ("Milnhouse Dale") residents.
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Civil Registration

  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
  • The hamlet was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
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Description & Travel

"MILLAR'S DALE, a spot on the river Wye, under Raven's Tor, in the parish of Tideswell, county Derby, 4 miles N.W. of Bakewell."

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

Railway service ceased here in 1970, but the car park is still in use for visitors. There are many nature preserves in the area.

Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of part of Miller's Dale on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.

You can see pictures of Millers Dale which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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History

Miller’s Dale grew with the arrival of the Midland Railway in 1867, which linked Manchester with London. It was a busy community at that time, as a junction on the railway line and a centre for limestone quarrying.

Litton Mill was built in 1782 and operated as a textile mill until 1874. It is now a residential .

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK142733 (Lat/Lon: 53.256519, -1.78861), Millers Dale which are provided by:

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Politics & Government

  • This place was just a hamlet in Tideswell parish.
     
  • This hamlet was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
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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 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this place became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.