Hopton, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Hopton, a township in Wirksworth parish, Derbyshire, 2 miles W by S of Wirksworth station on the M.R. Acreage, 1450; population, 99. Hopton Hall was the seat of Sir John Gell, who figured as a Parliamentarian leader in the wars of Charles I. Good building limestone is extensively quarried, and formed the material of Chatsworth House and Belvoir Castle. Lead ore also occurs. Roman relics, including an inscription and an urn, have been found. Almshouses with, £22 a year were founded in 1719 by Sir Philip Gell.
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 | Wirksworth | |
Hundred | Wirksworth |
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 Hopton 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 Hopton 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: