RIDGEWAY by ECKINGTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield 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 John.
  
  
• The church was built in 1840.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1868 and 1883.
  
  
• The church seats 650.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1843.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1848.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"RIDGEWAY is a hamlet, in the parish of Eckington, about two miles and a half N.N.W. therefrom. It partakes, with Mosborough, in the manufacture of scythes and sickles. Population included with the parish of Eckington."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Ridgeway 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 Ridgeway from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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