STANTON by YOULGREAVE (or STANTON IN PEAK), Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Church History

• It is the opinion of historians that the Druids used this area for worship. Their opinion is supported by the number of stone circles found nearby.
  
  
• It appears that there have been at least three Christian churches built here.
  
  
• Of the original chapel of ease, little is known and nothing remains.
  
  
• A second church was built in 1833 (or 1839) by William P. THORNHILL, then lord of the manor.
  
  
• Holy Trinity Church was built in 1889.
  
  
• The church seats 150. (Sources vary. The smaller number is reported.)
  
  
• The is a photograph of the church at the Flickr webiste.
  

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Church Records

• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
  
  
• All Things Winster - Dawn Scotting's blogspot - includes Stanton in the Peak parish records:
  

• The Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists and the Wesleyan Reformists each had a chapel here before 1857. These appear to have been in use in 1891.
  

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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

STANTON IN PEAK, STANTON LEES and STANTON WOODHOUSE.
"Part of the parish of Birchover was added and part of this parish transferred to the latter in 1934."
(Ref: The Place-Names of Derbyshire; K. Cameron, 1959).

The parish includes the hamlets of Stanton Lees, Pilhough and Congreave, which mainly consist of small farms.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Stanton-in-the-Peak 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 Stanton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• The parish held its annual feast on the Sunday nearest to All Saints Day.
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Youlgreave parish, Derbyshire and became a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• In April, 1934, this parish exchanged 79 acres to Birchover Civil Parish in return for 105 acres it gained from them in a boundary re-alignment.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1799.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.
  

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