TADDINGTON, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Beswick, Ron - Ron's Story, Memories of Old Taddington. Published privately 2002. No ISBN.

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Census

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell 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 Michael.
  
  
• The church seats 350.
  

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Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Michael & All Angels Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal. Added 21 Jun 2008.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1833.
  

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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

"TADDINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peake, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Bakewell, its post town, and 4 S.E. of Tideswell. The village is situated in Taddington Vale. A short distance from the village, on the summit of Five Wells Hill, is a burial-place of the ancient Britons. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £87, in the patronage of the Vicar of Bakewell."

[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 Taddington 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 Taddington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

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

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