High Peak, Derbyshire
Historical Description
High Peak, a parliamentary division of Derbyshire, was formed under the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, and returns one member to the House of Commons. Population, 60, 740. The division includes the following:-Buxton- Buxton, Fairfield, Hartington (Upper Quarter), Wormhill; Chapel-en-le-Frith-Aston, Bamford, Brough and Shatton, Bradwell, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Chinley, Bagsworth and Brownside, Derwent, Edale, Femilee, Hayfield, Hope, Hope Woodlands, Newmills, Peak Forest, Thomhill; Glossop- Charlesworth, Chunal, Dinting, Glossop, Hadfield, Ludworth or Chisworth, Mellor, Padfield, Simondley, Whitfield; Glossop, municipal borough.
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 High Peak 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: