MONYASH, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Leonard's Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal. Added 1 Nov 2007.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"MONYASH, a township and chapelry in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, four miles S.W. of Bakewell, its post town, and 7 W. of the Rowsley station. The village, which is small, is situated in a hollow near the source of the river Lathkill, and near the High Peak railway. It was formerly a market town, and is mentioned in Domesday Survey as being a place of penal settlement for ill-behaved monks."

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

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Monyash 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 Monyash by Barbarann Ayars.

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