Wardlow, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Wardlow, a township in Bakewell and Bradwell parishes, Derbyshire, 2½ miles E by S of Tideswell, and 2 from Longstone station on the M.R. Post town, Litton, under Buxton; money order and telegraph office, Tideswell. Acreage, 626, population, 140. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor and principal landowner. There is a small church in the Perpendicular style, erected in 1873.
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.
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 Wardlow 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 Wardlow 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: