Flagg

Flagg village is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes two stops every fourth Wednesday in the late -morning.

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

Alternatively, the buxton Library offers a Local History section and a Family History section as well.

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• Anglican church services were held in the schoolroom by the vicar of Chelmorton.

• The church would be in the rural deanery of Buxton.
   
• There was a Primitive Methodist chapel built here here in 1839.
   
• John DARCH provides a photograph of the Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
   
• The Unitarians had a chapel built here by 1838, but it was abandoned by them some time after 1891.
   
• Neal THEASBY provides a photograph of the Unitarian chapel on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.

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

"FLAGG, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 5 miles W. of Bakewell."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

Flagg is a township 6 miles west of Bakewell. Most of the parish land was used for grazing. Andrew HILL has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2011. Stop by and get a schedule of forth-coming events, or schedule your family re-union in the Hall.

Watch your speed in Flagg. Craig BROWN has a photograph of some slow-moving locals on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Mel LOCKIE has a transcription of the Flagg entry under Chelmorton from Lewis Topographical Dictionary (1831).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Flagg entry under Chelmorton from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Flagg entry under Chelmorton from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK132683 (Lat/Lon: 53.21153, -1.803434), Flagg 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.

There is a brass wall plaque in the Methodist Church to Matthew WILTON who died in October 1918 near the end of the war.

Private Matthew WILTON, 13th Middlesex Regt., killed at Avesnes, France, on 11 Oct. 1918, age 24, born in Flagg, son of Samuel WILTON, of Flagg, Derbyshire, and the late Mary WILTON.  His death is listed in the GRO records as being in Derbyshire.

Flagg is Old Norse for "A sod of peat".

• This place was an ancient Township in Bakewell parish in county Derby. It was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Flagg Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but please do NOT ask them to help you with family history searches. They are not funded for that activity.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.
   
• The Derbyshire Record Office holds the Parish Council Records for 1890 - 2016, including minutes, financial records, corresp, building plans, photographs and miscellaneous papers.

• The charities for the poor amounted to £4 10s annually.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings every Friday.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1871	183
1881	190
1891	176
1901	178
1911	219

A National School was erected here in 1882 for 100 students, but in 1891 the average attendance was only 27.

An older National School had opened in 1836 for 40 students and later enlarged to hold 60 students.  It was deemed too small in the late 1870s.