Grindlow

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

Alternatively, the Chapel-en-le-Frith Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides an extract of the Grindlow 1891 census on her Wishful Thinking website.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There is no record of an Anglican parish church in this parish.

• Parishioners attended the church in Great Hucklow or the one in Hope parish.

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

"GRINDLOW, a township in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 2 miles N.E. of Tideswell."

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

This was a small hamlet near Hope in Derbyshire. It saw a decline in its fortune (and population) when mining gave out around 1800.

John SLATER has a photograph of the stone-walled Road to Grindlow on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.

Neil THEASBY provides a view of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2012.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Louis MILLS provides a text copy of the Grindlow entry in WHITE's 1857 Directory of Derbyshire.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Grindlow entry under Hucklow from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

And John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales", 1870-72 tells us:

GRINDLOW, a township in Hope parish, Derby; 2¼ miles ENE of Tideswell. Real property, £146. Pop., 75. house, 14.

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK184773 (Lat/Lon: 53.292182, -1.725786), Grindlow 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.

• This place was an ancient township in Hope Parish in Derby county. It was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The parish has a joint parish council with Great Hucklow.
   
• The parish is currently in the Derbyshire Dales District.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings each Friday.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.