Dore, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Dore, a village and a township, forming with Totley a parish in Derbyshire. The township lies 3 miles NW of Dronfield and 5 SW by S of Sheffield, and has a station on the M.R., and a post-office under Sheffield; money order and telegraph office, Totley. Acreage, 3593; population of the-civil parish, 1030; of the ecclesiastical, 1646. Between Dor& and Totley lies the junction of the Dore and Chinley line, by which the distance between Manchester and Sheffield was½ very much shortened, which was completed by the M.R. in 1893 at a cost of £1,250,000. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; value, £110 with residence. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church was rebuilt in 1828. There-is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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