Matlock Bridge, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Matlock Bridge is the chief business part of Matlock parish, Derbyshire, on the river Derwent, and has a station on the M.R., a post, money order, and telegraph office under Matlock Bath, three banks, and a Free Methodist chapel. A market-hall and assembly-room was erected by a company in 1867, but thehe buildings have since become private property, and are used for various meetings, including county courts in alternate months, and entertainments. A cable tramway connects this place with Matlock Bank. A market is held. every Saturday.
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 Matlock Bridge 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: