Grindlow

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides an extract of the Grindlow 1891 census on her Wishful Thinking website.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Reference No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2150
1861	R.G. 9 / 2544
1891	R.G. 12 / 2777

• There is no record of an Anglican parish church in this parish.

• Parishioners attended the church in Great Hucklow or the one in Hope parish.

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

"GRINDLOW, a township in the parish of Hope, 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]

This was a small hamlet near Hope in Derbyshire. It saw a decline in its fortune (and population) when mining gave out around 1800.

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• Louis MILLS provides a text copy of the Grindlow entry in WHITE's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Grindlow entry under Hucklow from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Grindlow entry under Great Hucklow from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.

And John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales", 1870-72 tells us:

GRINDLOW, a township in Hope parish, Derby; 2¼ miles ENE of Tideswell. Real property, £146. Pop., 75. house, 14.

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• This place was an ancient township in Hope Parish in Derby county. It was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The parish has a joint parish council with Great Hucklow.
   
• The parish is currently in the Derbyshire Dales District.

• 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.