TIDESWELL, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Heaf, Eric - Tideswell Tracks. Pamphlet published 2000. Sadly, out of print.
  
  
• Hill, Tony - Tideswell Traders. Ashridge Press/Country Books, 2008. ISBN 01298 871428.
  
  
• Hill, Tony & Black, Paul - The Spirit of Tideswell. Landmark, 2001. ISBN 1-84306-010-8.
  

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Census

• The parish was in the Tideswell 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 John the Baptist.
  
  
• The church was built in the 14th century.
  
  
• The church is a Grade I listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church is popularly known as "The Cathedral of the Peak".
  

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Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St John the Baptist's Church (including Wheston, Litton, Cressbrook and Millers Dale) is available for purchase from Valerie Neal. Added 22 May 2007.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a parish register partial extracted Tideswell burials list in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
  
  
• Here is a list of Tideswell Parish Registers available on Microfilm from LDS Family History Libraries. Film Numbers are reproduced on GENUKI by kind permission of the Genealogical Society of Utah.
  
  

  Parish registers, 1635-1934.	Microfilm Number
  Baptisms, 1635-1663, 1675-1794 Marriages, 1635-1663, 1675-1754 Burials, 1635-1663, 1675-1794	1041014
  Baptisms, 1794-1908 Marriages, 1754-1837 Burials, 1794-1812	1041015
  Marriages, 1837-1903 Burials, 1813-1896 Banns, 1869-1881	1041016
  Burials, 1896-1934	1752120
  Marriages, 1903-1930	2081966
  Bishop's transcripts, 1671-1871.	Microfilm Number
  Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1671-1812	0428947
  Baptisms, marriages, and burials, 1813-1871	0498137

  
  
  Please note there are gaps in the Bishops Transcripts between 1730 and 1760 which are covered in the Parish Register, so the PR would be the preferrable option if you are looking for events during that period. Note also that since entries in the IGI are generally speaking culled from the BTs, IGI (Family Search) coverage is similarly patchy. So if you haven't yet found that elusive event in the IGI do not assume it's not there!

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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

"TIDESWELL is a small market-town, in the parish of its name, in the hundred of High Peak, 160 miles from London, 32 N.N.W. from Derby. 25 S.E. from Manchester, 17 E. by S. from Sheffield, 6 W. by N. from Buxton, and 5 S. from Castleton. Tideswell was formerly celebrated for its ebbing and flowing well, from which it is asserted by some authorities to have derived its name; but the first account of the place is in Domesday book, in which, under the name Tiddeswall, it is mentioned as a royal demesne, having a chapel, which in 1215 was given by King John to the canons of Lichfield."

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

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Directories

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

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Military History

• There is a photograph of the War Memorial on Flickr, taken in 2007.

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Military Records

• There is a list of the names on the War Memorial in Market Square on the Roll of Honour site.

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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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Schools

• "The Grammar School, founded by Bishop Pursglove in 1560, continued its good work until 1930; and during the 370 years that it existed, many boys from the neighbourhood have received their education here, whilst it has attracted some number of boarders from more distant parts. But, amongst other things, the school buildings (the lower part of which were erected in 1742 and the upper storey in 1824) are hardly suitable premises for an up-to-date education at the present day. In another form, however, the good Bishop's work still goes on - for the 'Robert Pursglove Educational Foundation' will provide a Central School in Tideswell for boys and girls over 11 years of age:- to the building of which £3,500 comes from the Grammar School Funds: in addition to which it will provide Scholarships to Secondary Schools to the amount of from £100 to £150 a year. And the Pursglove Dole, or 'Grammar School Dole' as it is locally called, will still continue to help many of the poor of the district."
  
  [Ref: A Guide to Tideswell and its Church, compiled by Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher MS FR Hist S.; Canon of Salisbury, (Formerly Vicar of Tideswell). The price was "One Shilling": no date of publishing is available.]
  
  
• Nicholas GARLICK (1555-1588) was appointed schoolmaster here and was a noted educator. He was a Catholic martyr in 1588.

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