GRINDLOW or GREENLOW, a small village and township, situated in an open country, 2¼ miles E.N.E. from Tideswell, 5 miles S. from Hope, contains 269 acres of tithe-free land, partly on lime, and partly on gritstone, and in 1851 had 19 houses, and 91 inhabitants, of whom 51 were males, and 40 females; rateable value £320. It appears to have gradually declined with the lead mining interest, for in the year 1789, it contained 30 houses, and by the census of 1811, there were 24; it doubtless took its name from the circular elevation in the centre of the village, which was formerly crowned with timber, of which nothing remains, except a few firs, of very stunted growth. 

A bold ridge of hills, about half a mile N.E. of the village, rises to a considerable height, and commands some very extensive views of the surrounding country. 

This manor, Greneslow in Pecco, was given by King John, 1199 or 1200, to the monastery of Lilleshull, in Shropshire. King Edward VI., in 1552, granted it by the name of Greenlow Grange to Sir Wm. Cavendish. In 1641, it belonged to William Cavandish, Earl of Newcastle, being then valued at £156 8s. per annum. It was afterwards the property of Sergeant Hill, whose heires carried it to the Honourable William Cockayne, from whose family it passed by sale to the Coxes, of Derby, and in like manner, a few years ago, to its present possessor, Andrew Brittlebank, Esq.