Higham, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Higham, a village in Shirland parish, Derbyshire, on Icknield Street, 2½ miles NNW of Alfreton, and half a mile from Stretton station on the M.R. It is an ancient place, was once a market-town, has still a market cross in the centre-of the market-place, a Free Methodist chapel, and a post and telegraph office under Alfreton; money order office, Shirland. A cattle fair is held on the first Wednesday after 1 Jan.
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 | Shirland | |
Hundred | Rotherbridge | |
Poor Law union | Chesterfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Higham from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Higham 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: