Sheldon, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Sheldon, a township in Bakewell parish, Derbyshire, 3 miles W of Bakewell station on the M.R. Post town and telegraph office, Bakewell; money order office, Ashford. Acreage, 1070; population, 120. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. The township forms part of the ecclesiastical parish of Ashford-in-the-Water, constituted in 1872. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £110. Patron, the Vicar of Bakewell. The church was rebuilt in 1865, in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, and bell turret. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Bakewell | |
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 Sheldon 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 Sheldon 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: