Great Hucklow, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Hucklow, Great, a hamlet and a township in Bradwell parish, Derbyshire, 2 miles NNE of Tideswell, and 4 from Miller's Dale station on the M.R. Post town, Sheffield; money order and telegraph office, Tideswell. Acreage, 1113; population, 147. It was formerly part of the duchy of Lancaster manor of High Peak, and the chief employments of its inhabitants are mining and agriculture. There are Wesleyan and Unitarian chapels.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Great Hucklow are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online: