YOULGREAVE, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Ardley, Bridget & Bartlett, Mary - The Spirit of Youlgreave. Landmark, 2003. ISBN 1-84306-083-3.
  
  
• Wilson, Norman - Youlgreave Remembers. Published privately, 2005. No ISBN. Added 31 Jul 2005.

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Census

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• The Gratton portion of 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 All Saints.
  
  
• The church was built in the 12th century.
  
  
• The church seats 500.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of All Saints 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 Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• The Gratton portion of the parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"YOULGRAVE is a village in the parish of its name, which is partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, and partly in that of High Peak; about 3 miles S. by W. from Bakewell. It contains the parish church, a good building, dedicated to All-Saints, and a place of worship each for the Wesleyan and primitive methodists. The living of Youlgrave is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire: the present incumbent is the Rev. Benjamin Pidcock. The parish contained, at tine last census, 3,081 inhabitants, and the township 951 of that number."

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

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Directories

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

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Names, Geographical

• A village described by local historian and teacher Mr J W Shimwell as 'the most mis-spelt village', the Youlgrave 'Websight' tells it all! We assume their own misspelling of 'site' is a joke... Added 1 Feb 2006.
  
  
• The pronunciation of the place-name varies; in broad Derbyshire dialect it would be 'YolgrEEve'; the more polite version sounds closer to what one would expect from the spelling - 'Youl-grAve'.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth 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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