STOKE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the 1891 census for Stoke on her website.
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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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

"STOKE, a township in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peake, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Bakewell, and 1½ mile N.E. of Stoney-Middleton, 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 Hope entry where Stoke is briefly noted in the Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Historical Geography

• Stoke 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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History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817,for Stoke by Barbarann Ayars.

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Occupations

• Stoke Quarry has for many years provided quality stone for a variety of purposes, and employment for many local stonemasons and labourers. Today, mechanisation has replaced many of the traditional skills, such as stone cutting, and gathering, and whilst one might regret the loss of such skills, in the past workers were subject to respiratory diseases such as silicosis, and accidents caused by unguarded equipment and rock falls. Mechanisation and more safety precautions make such hazards less of an issue for today's workers...

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.
  

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