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TADDINGTON, Derbyshire

"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]

Bibliography Cemeteries Census Church History Church Records

Early 20thC Map Click to view larger area.

Description and Travel Directories Gazetteers History Population

Bibliography

• Beswick, Ron - Ron's Story, Memories of Old Taddington. Published privately 2002.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Ron's Story, Memories of Old Taddington’ (Peak Advertiser, 3rd June 2002).

Cemeteries

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in St Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Taddington, collected and transcribed by Alf Beard.

• Photograph of War Memorial, Taddington, from Alf Beard.

Census

• Transcriptions of the 1841 and 1861 Census are available on Liz Sparkes' Family History Site - really great resources for anyone having roots in this area.

• Complete transcriptions of the Taddington Census of 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881 - included as Four Rural Areas, 1851-1881 - are accessible by various means.

Church History

• Photograph of St Michael & All Angels Church (1), and Photograph of St Michael & All Angels Church (2), Taddington, from Alf Beard.

• Photograph of Primitive Methodist Chapel (1903), Taddington, from Alf Beard.

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.

Description and Travel

• Photograph of Village with Church, Taddington, from Alf Beard.

Directories

• Liz Sparkes' page devoted to Taddington Village includes Description, and Directory lists of names transcribed from White's Trade Directory, 1857 and Kelly's Trade Directory, 1881. Also featured are some attractive photographs of Taddington.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Taddington by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Taddington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

History

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

• Taddington is one of the villages for which information on its history, and news is provided, on the Primitive Hall web site. The site is regularly updated with recent and future events.

Population

• Census Statistics - the population figures for the village of Taddington are as follows:-

  1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891
  284	515	463	391	499	460	507	397	408	363
  1901	1911	1921	1931	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991
  379	370	384	446	479	472	455	426	398

  The above census statistics have been contributed by Joseph Platt.

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