Youlgreave, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire



Parish History
Youlgreave All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. Stanton, Middleton and Smerrill, and Birchover are chapelries of Youlgreave.Other places in the parish include: Youlgreave with Alport and Gratton.

YOULGRAVE (All Saints), a parish, partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, and partly in that of High Peak, union of Bakewell, N. division of the county of Derby; containing, with the chapelries of Birchover, Elton, Stanton, and Winster, and the township of Middleton with Smerril, 3727 inhabitants, of whom 1060 are in Youlgrave township, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Bakewell. Here are numerous lead-mines, which, though formerly more productive than at present, are still in active operation; and stone of good quality for building, and for walls for fencing, is extensively quarried: various fossils are found in the quarries. About a mile southwest of the church is a handsome stone mansion, erected in 1844, by Thomas Bateman, Esq., and containing a variety of antiquities. The scenery is mountainous and romantic. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £9. 4. 7.; net income, £220; patron and impropriator, the Duke of Devonshire. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1815; the glebe comprises 100 acres, with a house. The church is a very handsome structure, partly Norman, and partly in the later English style, and contains several ancient monuments. There are chapels at Winster, Elton, Birchover, and Stanton; also places of worship for Calvinists, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 719-742. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51438 Date accessed: 04 April 2011.

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