SCARCLIFFE, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
- For census lookups, use the village website.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Leonard.
- The church was built in the 12th century with work continuing into the 13th century.
- The church spire was taken down in 1842 during a partial restoration of the church.
- The church seats 300.
- The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1680 for all entries.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
- The Primitive Methodists build a chapel here in 1858, but when that denomination withered away, the building became the parish school.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"SCARCLIFFE is a parish and village, in the same hundred as Bolsover, about 2 miles S.S.E. from that town. The Earl of Bathurst is lord of the manor; and the patronage of the church living, which is a vicarage, is possessed by the Duke of Devonshire. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard, and contains an interesting monument, of the 11th century. Population of the parish, according to the census taken in 1831, 524."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
The parish lies 135 miles north of London and covers almost 4,000 acres which includes the hamlet of Palterton. The river Poulter rises in the southern part of this parish. The village has its own website with photographs.
The nearby hamlet of Palterton has its history listed at Bygone Times.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Scarcliff 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 Scarcliff from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Military Records
For a photograph of the Firsby War Memorial and a list of the names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.