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From Wikipedia:

"Hartington is a village in the centre of the White Peak area of the Derbyshire Peak District, England, lying on the River Dove which is the Staffordshire border."

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Archives & Libraries

Hartington village is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop in the Market Place every fourth Wednesday in the mid-afternoon.

I would recommend the Buxton Library as an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

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Bibliography

  • WESTON, Ron - Hartington: A Landscape History from the earliest Times to 1800. Derbyshire C. C., 2000. ISBN 97-80903463-5843.
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Cemeteries

Mick GARRATT has a photograph of the churchyard at Hartington on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.

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Census

  • The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1851H.O. 107 / 2146
1861R.G. 9 / 2523 & 2545
1891R.G. 12 / 2755, 2774, 2778 & 2779
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
     
  • The church was built in the 12th century.
     
  • The church was restored in 1858.
     
  • The church seats 400.
     
  • Philip HALLING has a photograph of Hartington Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
     
  • And here's another view of Hartington Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
     
  • John SALMON has a view of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in 1991.
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register dates from 1538, but prior to 1650 it is very delapidated.
     
  • Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and correction are welcomed.
     
  • The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.
     
  • A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1827.
     
  • A Free Methodist chapel was built here in 1850.
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Civil Registration

  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
  • The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
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Description & Travel

"HARTINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 7 miles S.W. of Bakewell. The parish, which is very extensive, is divided into the Town, Middle, Nether, and Upper Quarters, with the townships of Biggin and Earl-Sterndale. It is situated near the river Dove, and the Cromford and High Peak railway passes on the E., at the distance of about 3 miles. The village, which was formerly a market town under the Ferrers, who held the castle, is still very considerable. In the reign of Charles I., it became the property of the Villiers family."

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

Branside and Haperhill are places in Hartington Town Quarter. Burbage and Briarlow (or Brierlow) is a place in Hartington Upper Quarter.

Alex McGREGOR has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011. Perhaps they could use your artistic talent and marketing skills to envision a more enticing sign?

You can see pictures of Hartington which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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Historical Geography

The "old" parish of Hartington was divided into four quarters:

  1. Town Quarter, which now forms the village of Hartington,
     
  2. Nether Quarter, which became the parish of Biggin in 1849,
     
  3. Upper Quarter, which became the parish of Burbage in 1869, and
     
  4. Middle Quarter which became the parish of Earl Sterndale in 1873. Added 1 Feb 2007.
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History

  • A large barrow was opened at Briarlow in 1845, revealing a large skeleton and a collection of rat bones and a portion of an urn.
     
  • Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Hartington by Barbarann AYARS.
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Manors

Hartington Hall was built in 1611. It was restored in 1802.

The Hall was enlarged in 1911. Recently, it was converted for use as a youth hostel.

Graham HOGG has a photograph of Hartington Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2014.

Haley GREEN has a photograph of the Hall Entrance on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK129604 (Lat/Lon: 53.140597, -1.808612), Hartington which are provided by:

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Military History

  • In 1891, 1 Company of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters was here. Captain J. SHELDON, commandant.
     
  • David M. GOODWIN has a photograph of the Hartington War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.
     
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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became four separate, modern Civil Parishes of Hartington Middle Quarter, Hartington Nether Quarter, Hartington Town Quarter and Hartington Upper Quarter in December, 1866.
     
  • This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashbourne petty session hearings.
     
  • There is an index of about 30 Hartington Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Hartington" from the list of parishes displayed.
     
  • With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.
     
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Schools

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built in the Town Quarter township in 1866 and enlarged in 1874-75 and again in 1909.