Foolow

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

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

• There has been no Anglican parish church in Foolow until a tiny chapel was built and consecrated and used as a church in 1889.
   
• The Anglican mission chapel dedicated to Saint Hugh was built in 1889.
   
• Alan FLEMING has a photograph of St. Hugh's on Geo-graph, taken in 2004.
   
• Neil THEASBY also has a photograph of St. Hugh's on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2018.
   

• Search the Eyam parish registers for anything prior to 1890.
   
• The webpage author could find NO parish register information on St. Hugh's Church.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Eyam.
   
• The Wesleyan Reformed Church was built in 1836.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2012. The chapel was auctioned off in 2011 and is no longer used for divine services.

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

"FOOLOW, a hamlet in the parish of Eyam, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 2 miles N.E. of Tideswell."

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

The village sits in the High Peak National Park 2 miles west of Eyam. Much of the village dates from the 18th and 19th centuries.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Eyam entry (where Foolow is mentioned) from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Foolow entry under Eyam from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

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

You can see the administrative areas in which Foolow has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

The Milestone Society has a photograph of the old, Grade II Village Cross on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Bull's Head Public House on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2018.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK197755 (Lat/Lon: 53.275956, -1.706641), Foolow 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 hamlet in Eyam parish in Derby county and became a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The residents of this parish have elected to forgo a formal parish council and instead have periodic Parish Meetings of all the residents to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings every Friday.
   
• There is an index of only one Foolow Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Eyam" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.