Birchover

Birchover is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop by the Red Lion every fourth Friday in the late morning.

The Library at Matlock will prove useful in your research.

Alternatively, the Bakewell Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
   
• The formal dedication is to the "Holy Name of Jesus, Saint Michael & All Angels".
   
• The church had originally just been a Chapel of Ease, but in 1870 it became its own ecclesastical parish.
   
• The written history of this church is somewhat obscure. It was possibly a catholic chapel originally.
   
• The church was built in the 1700s.
   
• The chaple was restored in 1877.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   
• And Steven RUFFLES also has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• There is a hermitage, consisting of a shallow cave at the base of the Cratcliffe Rocks about a mile from the church, partly obscured by a Yew tree. The cave contains a crucifix about 4 feet high and a seat, hewn out of the rock. This all appears to date from the 13th century.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1855.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
   
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1857 on Main Street. This is now the Wesleyan Reform Church. The chapel was rebuilt in 1908. Unverified reports tell us that the church is closed.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009.
   
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1867 on Upper Town Lane. This chapel is also now closed.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the Primitive Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009.
   
• And Basher EYRE has a photograph of the Memorial stone, Primitive Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015.

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

"BIRCHOVER, a chapelry in the parish of Youlgreave, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 1 mile from Winster. It is in the honour of Tutbury, and duchy of Lancaster."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

Graham HORN has a photograph of the Birchover millennium stone on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Birchover entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Birchover entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Birchover to another place.

John DARCH has a photograph of the Red Lion Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.

Proprietors of the Red Lion from various Directories:

Graham HORN has a photograph of the Millennium Stone on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK243625 (Lat/Lon: 53.158976, -1.637819), Birchover which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• This place was an ancient Township and Chapelry in Youlgreave parish and it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Birchover Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings each Friday..
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (infants) was built here in 1883 by Major McGREAGH-THORNHILL for 60 infants.

Older children attended school in Stanton-in-the-Peak.