Fernilee

The Chapel-en-le-Frith Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Alernatively, the Buxton Library is also an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Chapel en le Frith sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• A photograph of the Methodist Chapel is at the Wishful Thinking website, which includes a bit of history about the building.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Chapel en le Frith sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.

"FERNILEE, a township in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 4 miles S.W. of Chapel-en-le-Frith, and 5 N.W. of Buxton. The Cromford and High Peak railway passes in the vicinity. Coal is obtained in this place, and there is a powder-mill. Here is a chapel belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists, and a National school. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor."

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

Fernilee lies just east of the Goyt River along the A5004 arterial road, just south of Horwich and north of the Fernilee Reservoir.

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

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

• The river Goyt, which flows through Horwich End and Whaley Bridge, was formerly the boundary between Derbyshire and Cheshire, separating the parishes of Taxal (St James's Church) and Fernilee. Originally, Fernilee was united with Chapel en le Frith, which was then a chapelry in the parish of Hope. However when Chapel en le Frith became an independent parish in 1297, Fernilee remained part of Hope, where it stayed until in 1898, when it was transferred to Buxton. Shortly after (1905) it became a separate parish, then in 1966, it was joined with Taxal, in the diocese of Chester. For the purposes of civil administration, however Taxal and Fernilee are now in Derbyshire.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK033774 (Lat/Lon: 53.29323, -1.9516), Fernilee 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.

The names on the local War Memorial are:

1. Ashby, 2Lt L.
2. Hill, A.
3. Hill, E.
4. Lupton, A.
5. Wilson, P.
6. Wilson, T.
7. Woolley, F.

• This place was a Chapelry in Hope parish in County Derby and was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This Civil Parish was abolished in April, 1936, and amalgamated into Hartington Upper Quarter Civil Parish.
   
• District governance is provided by the High Peak Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chapel-en-le-Frith petty session hearings once each month.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Chapel-en-le-Frith Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1871	901
1881	1,063
1891	1,233
1901	1,309

The Taxal and Fernilee National CofE Primary School (mixed is on Reddish Road in Waley Bridge. It currently teaches 208 students.

The Wesleyan (mixed), enlarged in 1888, for 340 children; average attendance, 220; Joseph Woolley, master; Miss Elizabeth Richards, mistress (in 1891).