MONYASH, Derbyshire

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 Leonard.
  
  
• The church was founded in 1198.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly restored and portions rebuilt in 1887.
  
  
• The church seats 183.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1701.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
  
  
• The Society of Friends (Quakers) had a meeting house here in 1891. It had its own cemetery nearby.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1835 and replaced it in 1888.

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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

"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]

The parish is 8 miles south of Buxton and has its own Website.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Monyash entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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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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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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