NETHER PADLEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• Rosemary Lockie provides census extracts for Nether Padley at her Wishful Thinking site.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There was an Anglican Chapel in the Manor House, but the author has not found an Anglican church in the hamlet.
  
  
• Rosemary Lockie provides a church history of Nether Padley at her Wishful Thinking site.

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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

"NETHER PADLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Bakewell, and 2½ N.E. of Stoney-Middleton. It is situated on the river Derwent.

[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 the Nether Padley entry under Hope from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Historical Geography

• Nether Padley was formerly a Township of Hope parish. It was transferred to Eyam in 1911; then in 1987 it became part of the "modern" parish of Grindleford.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient hamlet and township in Hope parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish in December 1866. This date conflicts with the entry above, but is taken from Vision of Britain.
  
  
• Upper Padley was formerly a Township of Hathersage.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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