Grindlow, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Grindlow, a township in Bradwell parish, Derbyshire, 2½ miles ENE of Tideswell, and 4½ from Miller's Dale station on the M.R. Acreage, 296; population, 35. Post town, Sheffield; money order and telegraph office, Tideswell.

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Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Derbyshire
Civil parish	Hope
Hundred	High Peak
Poor Law union	Bakewell

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

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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.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Grindlow from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grindlow)

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Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.

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Maps

Online maps of Grindlow 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)

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online:

• Derby Daily Telegraph
• Derby Mercury
• Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald
• Derbyshire Courier