Bradwell

Bradwell village is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop at the Trent Garage car park every fourth Thursday in the late afternoon.

The Bakewell Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• Bradwell Historical Society - After Seth : Bradwell into the Twenty-First Century. Country Books/Ashridge Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-906789-01-5. Added 15 Sep 2008.
   
• BRADWELL, Jabez - The Jabez Bradwell Diary. Bradwell Historical Society, 2004. ISBN 0-9529227-0-3.
   
• COOPER, Frank - Bradwell Fire Service - The First Fifty Years 1939-1989. Ashridge Press, 2004. ISBN 1-901214-16-8.
   
• EVANS, Seth - Bradwell, Ancient & Modern. Country Books of Longstone, 2004. Facsimile reprint. No ISBN.

I have put together a list of Bradwell Burials (So far, just the HALL surname) for your use.

Peter TURNER has a photograph of the graveyard below Hungry Lane on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012.

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• The 1891 census can be found at the Wishful Thinking web site.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Barnabas.
   
• The church was built in 1868.
   
• The church tower was added in 1889.
   
• The church seats 235.
   
• William METCALF has a photograph of St Barnabas' Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1878.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Eyam.
   
• A Unitarian chapel was built here in 1798.
   
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1807 and enlarged in 1878.
   
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1845 to replace one built earlier in 1823.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of a Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2003.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.

"BRADWELL is a populous hamlet, in the parish of Hope, about 2 miles S.E. from Castleton. The importance of this hamlet is chiefly derived from the mining operations carried on within it, and the lead smelting Works, belonging to Messrs. Furness & Co.; hats are also manufactured here by several individuals. In 1821 the number of inhabitants in the hamlet was 1,130, and in 1831, 1,153."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The parish covers 2,119 acres and includes the hamlets of Abney and Abney Grange.

The lordship of Hazelbridge, sometimes given as Hazlebadge, is just south of Bradwell village and 4 miles north-east from Tideswell.

The village has its own website managed by the parish council.

David DUNFORD has a photograph of Brook Street on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2005.

The Midland Railway opened a station here in 1894.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Bradwell entry under Castleton from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Bradwell entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Bradwell from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bradwell to another place.

• The parish of Bradwell was formed on 5th August 1875 from the parish of Hope.

• Stashes of Roman coins have been found in the parish.
   
• The village is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• Recently, Bradwell achieved some fame by having its Christmas Light dislay powered by a homemade water turbine in Bradwell Brook.
   
• In 1891, there were five Public Houses in Bradwell: The Bowling Green in Small dale, the Bulls Head P.H, the Shoulder of Mutton P.H., the Newburgh Arms P.H., and the White Hart P.H.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Bowling Green Inn on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.
   
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of the Shoulder of Mutton Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   
• Proprietors of the Shoulder of Mutton as given in various Directories:

• Graham HOGG has a photograph of a Hazlebadge Hall on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK156807 (Lat/Lon: 53.323352, -1.767341), Bradwell which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The parish Council publishes newsletters on its website. Older copies MAY exist in local libraries.

• This place was an ancient Township in Hope parish in Derbyshire and was made a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• According to parish records, the parish was formally formed in August, 1875.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the local Bradwell Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed or funded to provide family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Peak District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chapel-en-le-Frith petty session hearings once each month.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.

The parish had a Public Elementary School (mixed) built in 1871 for 180 children.

Another Public Elementary School (also mixed) was built in 1894-95 for 120 children.