Wardlow
WARDLOW, a township, partly in the parish of Hope, but chiefly in that of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, union of Bakewell, N. division of the county of Derby, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Tideswell; containing 171 inhabitants, of whom 71 are in Wardlow Mires. The vicarial tithes were commuted for land in 1810. In making a turnpike-road through the village, in 1759, a circular heap of stones was opened, and found to contain the remains of about seventeen bodies, interred in rude cells or coffins of stone, and supposed to have been the bodies of men slain during the war between the houses of York and Lancaster, or of persons interred in a family burial-place.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.