Parwich

Parwich village is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop in the village at the Green every fourth Friday in the late afternoon.

The Ashbourne Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Alternatively, the Matlock Library also has a Local History section and a Family History section.

Graham HOGG has a photograph of St. Peter's Church graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.

Michael SPENCER has extracted many Parish Register burials from the parish register for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

• The parish was in the Hartington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• By 1901 the parish had been reassigned to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• This place was formerly a Chapelry to Ashbourne.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The Normans built the original church here, but the date is unreported.
   
• The church was entirely rebuilt in 1873.
   
• The church was restored in 1907 and some additions made.
   
• Mick LOBB has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.
   
• Neil THEASBY also has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1640.
   
• Marriages at Parwich, 1639-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was erected here in 1843.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Hartington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• By 1901 the parish had been reassigned to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   

"PARWICH, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 7 miles N.E. of Ashbourne, its post town, and 6 S.W. of Winster. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the Peak Forest railway. In the neighbourhood are traces of an encampment of Roman origin, many relics of that description having been found on its site. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture."

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

The parish covered 3,081 acres in 1857. The village has its own website that gives current information about "what's on" in Parwich and includes some photographs around the village.

Steven G. TAYLOR has a nice photograph of Parwich village on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.

Take your dog for a dip on those hot days in the Parwich village pond.

Andrew HILL has a nice photograph of the Countryside view of Parwich on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Parwich entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Parwich entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Parwich entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• The transcription of the section for Parwich from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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

• A half mile north of the village at Lombard's Green are the remains of a Roman settlement.
   
• Roman coins and other artifacts have been found in the parish.
   
• In the 1600s thru the 1900s, most of the land was dairy pasturage.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Sycamore Inn on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.

A 16th C Muster Roll for Perwyche gives the following names of men as "able archers". So if you are good at throwing darts in the pub on Saturday night, you may have it on your blood. List compliments of Michael SPENCER (2012):

1. Wm. ALLSOPE
2. Richard APPLEBY
3. Anthony CRESWELL
4. Rich. DODESWORTH
5. Thomas MYLLINGTON
6. Richard ROE

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of Parwich Hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK189544 (Lat/Lon: 53.086486, -1.719271), Parwich 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.

• There is a War Memorial display in the churchyard outside the church, on the north wall of the tower. It is a cascade of artificial red poppies.

• There are no names on the church building display.

• The village is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book where the name appears as "Pevrewic".
   

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Ashborne parish in Derbyshire. It was converted to a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Parwich Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but please do NOT ask them for help with your family history.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashbourne petty session hearings.
   
• Thurstan DALE, in 1653, left 10s. annually for the most deserving poor.
   
• BERESFORD's Charity, left in 1695, amounts to £38 yearly, for distribution, £34 being also paid to the minister.
   
• George DAKEYNE, in 1757, left £1 annually for the most needy persons in the parish.
   
• In May of 1818, the Rev. Francis GISBORNE left a charity of £6 10s annually for clothing for the poor.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (mixed and infants) was built in 1862 and enlarged in 1905 to hold 148 children. The school was "full" in 1911.

David BEVIS has a photograph of Parwich Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.