Dethick and Holloway

Holloway is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes two stops in the village at Holme Close and the Yew Tree Inn every fourth Tuesday in the late morning.

The Library at Belper is an excellent resource for you.

Alternatively, the Library at Matlock is also an excellent resource.

Lea had a cemetery of one acre laid out in 1872. Before 1912, it was enlarged to 1.5 acres. It had a single mortuary chapel.

Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the Lea Cemetery on geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.

• The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• Alan S. FLINT has the 1841 and 1851 census indexed on his Dethick website. Don't be surprised to be whisked off to another site, it is part of the design. In October, 2018, this site had still not been restored by Ancestry.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church at Dethick is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• This stone church was built in 1220.
   
• The tower was added in 1535.
   
• This little church seats 60.
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of St John the Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.
   
• Colin PARK has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011.

• St. John's parish register dates from 1801.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
   
• Lea had a small Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1838-39.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the Holloway United Medthodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Holloway Primitive Medthodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2011. This chapel was built in 1852 and enlarged in 1879. It is now a private residence.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• Remember that prior to 1867, this place was part of Ashover Civil Parish and that Holloway didn't join Dethick until late in 1896.

"HOLLOWAY and [DETHWICK] LEA are two villages, two and a half miles from Cromford, containing considerable lead works, a manufactory for hosiery and merino spinning, and one for hats. The situation of these village is highly picturesque. From Lea the inclined plane of the High Peak railway ascends to the summit of the lofty bills which environ Cromford. Lea, or Dethwick Lea, and Holloway (in the parish of Ashover), form one hamlet, containing 675 inhabitants."

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

Chris MORGAN has a photograph of Stepping Stones Across the Lea Brook on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Lea and Holloway entry (under Wirksworth) from PIGOT's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Dethwick, Lea and Holloway entry from KELLY's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Dethick and Holloway to another place.

• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Jug and Glass Inn on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the old Yew Tree Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009. It has been converted to a residence.
   
• Florence NIGHTINGALE lived part of her life in the family home at Lea Hurst.
   
• The Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall is the Village Hall used by a number of organizations and clubs for local meetings.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
   
• Michael SPENCER has this snippet of history to report:

"Confirmation by Godfrey OUTRAM parson of Ashover on testimony of Giles and Ralph AMOT, Andrew ALLEN and Edward COWLISHAW knowing Dethick in the time of Thomas BABBINGTON, his father Sir Anthony BABBINGTON and grand father Thomas BABBINGTON and the evidence of Ester Rolls of practice of predecessors Mr EYE, in 1550, Dr ROOS in 1529 Mr Leonard RERESBIE Mr HARRISON and Mr HULLEY of a custom of payments by Lords and owner of house in Dethick of four marks yearly in lieu of all tithes except oblations for selves, wives, children, servants wages and offspring. Dated 1613. "

And Jurors list for 1775, DETHICK, TANSLEY and LEA:

• Peter NIGHTINGALE Esq.
• John COWLEY Lea
• Geo. SMITH
• James SPENCER Tansley
• Henry GREGORY Constable

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK330570 (Lat/Lon: 53.109174, -1.508494), Dethick and Holloway 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 Traces of War website tells us that the cemetery has one Commonwealth War Grave from World War II.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the War Memorial at Holloway taken in August, 2011.
   
• There is a photograph of the Lea and Holloway War Memorial from 1922 at the Ann ANDREWS site.

• The Commonwealth War Grave would be for Pilot Sergeant Michael Gervase HAM who died in November, 1940, RAF Vol. Reserve. He was the son of Revd. Herbert and Hilda Annie HAM of Cromford.
   

• This pair of hamlets were physically very close to one another and formed an ancient Township in Ashover parish in Derby county.
   
• Dethick was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• Holloway was merged with Dethick Civil Parish in December, 1896.
   
• On 2 July 1901 a part of Crich Civil Parish was annexed to Dethick Civil Parish.
   
• This parish was a part of the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the local Dethick, Lea and Holloway Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Matlock and Wirksworth petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.

MENTIONED IN WILL 1868

35 George DICKEN Dethick, farmer, mentions;
wife Mary
eldest son Robert
late Uncle Robert DICKENS Will
youngest son George Allen DICKEN
Wm DRABBLE
witness Hy RADFORD
witness dau Mary Elizabeth DICKEN
dau Anne DICKEN
dau Catharine DICKEN
dau Ruth Alice DICKEN
dau Margarert Hannah DICKEN
John LEE witness
Robert DICKEN Snr witness
Joseph SANDERS Newbound, Teversal ,Executor.

A Public Elementary School was built here in Lea in 1859 for 200 children. It was enlarged in 1889 for 264 children.

Andrew HILL has a photograph of Lea Elementary School on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.

The Lea Green Learning and Development Centre is a relatively new facility focused on outdoor learning. The building dates from 1761. It was purchased in 1960 by the Derbyshire County Council. Over the next three decades the facility was expanded and developed into today's modern outdoor learning and adventurism facility.