STAVELEY, 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 Baptist.
  
  
• The church seats 800.
  
  
• Bill HENDERSON has a photograph of Staveley 's Anglican church on Geo-graph, taken in 2004.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1557.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register baptism extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
  
  
• The Methodists built a brick chapel here in 1826.
  
  
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2011. This builoding replaced the old chapel in 19706

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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

"STAVELEY is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale, the village being about five miles E.N.E. from Chesterfield, and three S.W. from Barlborough; situate near the banks of the river Rother, and the Chesterfield canal. In the neighbourhood are mines of coal and iron-stone, with furnaces for smelting the ore; and in the village is a manufactory for painting brushes of a superior description, and brushes for machinery, belonging to a Mr. Fletcher."

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

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Directories

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

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History

• The parish had a feast on the Sunday before Midsummer's Day.
  
• Stop by "The Pod" Public House and ask about the local history. This place used to be the Angel Hotel.
  
• Tony BACON has a photograph of The Pod on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.

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Military History

• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
• There is another photograph of the War Memorial on Panoramio, taken in 2012.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.

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Schools

• A grammar school at Netherthorpe in Staveley was founded jointly in 1572 by the (de)Rodes, Sitwell, Frecheville and Cavendish families, although it is understood the Cavendish family later withdrew from this partnership.
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999, et al)

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