WINSTER, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Winster, A Peak District Village Remembers. Winster Local History Group, 2000. No ISBN. The book can be ordered from the Winster village website.

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Census

• The parish was in the Matlock 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 tower was added to the church in 1721.
  
  
• The church, except for the tower, was rebuilt and enlarged in 1842.
  
  
• The church was restored again in 1883.
  
  
• The church seats 450.
  
  
• There is a photograph of the church at Sheena Woodhead's website.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1634.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St John's Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"WINSTER, although but a chapelry to Youlgreave, and now an inconsiderable village, was once a market town of some note. It is six miles from Bakewell, and 13 S.W. from Chesterfield, situate on the old road from Ashbourn to the latter town, and midway between the river Derwent and the Cromford and High Peak railway, about three miles from each; with the latter of which a branch communication is contemplated."

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

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Directories

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

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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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