Haddon

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

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

• A Chapel of Ease was erected in Over Haddon in 1880.
   
• The Anglican chapel is dedicated to Saint Anne.
   
• The chapel seats 80.

• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
   
• A Wesleyan Reform chapel was built in Over-Haddon before 1870.

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

"HADDON, (Over and Nether Haddon) townships in the parish of Bakewell, county Derby, 2 miles S.E. of Bakewell. They are situated on the river Wye, and contain several good houses. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment under an Enclosure Act in 1806. At this place is Haddon Hall, the old baronial seat of the Vernons, one of whom, Sir George Vernon, is celebrated in story as "King of the Peak". The whole building, which is still nearly perfect, is situated on a limestone rock overlooking the river Wye."

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

The parish is about 160 miles north of London. Jarry EVANS meditates on a lamb in Lathkill on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2007.

Passenger rail service came to the parish in 1849.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Haddon entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Haddon entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Haddon from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

Martha TAYLOR, "the fasting damsel", born in Over Haddon in 1649. She didn't eat for almost two years before her death in 1684.

Over Haddon is the birthplace of Maurice OLDFIELD, a former head of MI6 and reputedly the inspiration for both John le Carré's George SMILEY and 'M' in the James Bond books. He died in 1981 is buried in St. Anne's churchyard. He was born just outside Youlgreave on 16 Nov 1915, according to Ancestry's database, the sone of Joseph OLDFIELD, tenant farmer, and his wife, Ada Annie DICKEN.

• The footbridge over the River Lathkill may be medieval.
   
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Over- and Nether-Haddon by Barbarann AYARS.
   
• There was a Gold Rush in 1854. Gold was found in a local mine but was in such small quantities that hundreds of investors all lost their money.
   
• The village celebrated an annual Feast on the Sunday nearest to 12th November.
   
• The Lathkil Hotel (older names are "The Miner's Arms" and "The Lathkil View Hotel") has been in the parish since 1828. The Hotel is still in operation and has its own website. Here are the names associated with the Hotel in the old directories:

Esther WILDGOOSE was born in Ballidon, DBY, circa 1816. She was the wife of Francis, listed above in 1870. Their daughter Annie was born in Haddon Grove circa 1847.

The site of a deserted medieval village, Conksbury, is on the south bank of the River Lathkill, between Over Haddon and Youlgreave.

• Haddon Hall stands just northeast of the A6 trunk road (here called Haddon Road).
   
• Haddon Hall is a Grade I listed building with English Heritage.
   
• Dave NAPIER provides a photograph of the inside of Haddon Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
   
• You mary recognize Haddon Hall as the castle used in the movie "The Princess Bride".

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK235666 (Lat/Lon: 53.195967, -1.649702), Haddon 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 parish War Memorial commemorates the 4 people killed in World War I and the one person killed in World War II as well as all who served.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of that War Memorial on Main Street on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.
   

There are no Commonwealth War Graves in Haddon's churchyard.

These are the 52 names on the War Memorial from World Wars One and Two (includes those who served and returned.):

1. Andrews, G. I.
2. Andrews, J.
3. Andrews, J. A.
4. Andrews, J. E.
5. Bartram, F.
6. Bartram, H.
7. Beebe, G.
8. Beebe, K.
9. Bender, A.
10. Cawley, D.
11. Cawley, V.
12. Comont, L.
13. Critchlow, D.
14. Evans, S.
15. Glossop, F.
16. Glossop, M.
17. Glossop, S.
18. Hambleton, T.
19. Hayto, B.
20. Hayto, E.
21. Hayto, George Thomas Jr., pte, Sherwood Foresters
22. Hayto, H.
23. Kay, L.
24. Kay, Leo
25. Kay, P.
26. Kay, W.
27. Lytle, J.
28. Marsden, A.
29. Marsden, Alfred Francis, gnr, RGA
30. Mather, D.
31. Mathers, W.
32. Mellor, J.
33. Mellor, J.
34. Moss, G.
35. Newton, G.
36. Nuttall, J.
37. Oldfield, I.
38. Oldfield, J.
39. Oldfield, M.
40. Price, George Duford, pte. Northamptonshire Regt.
41. Richardson, G.
42. Sherrat, W.
43. Smith, G.
44. Spencer, W.
45. Sutton, H.
46. Taylor, J.
47. Tomlinson, H.
48. Tomlinson, S.
49. Wragg, L.
50. Wright, K.
51. Wright, W.
52. Wright, William

The name "Haddon" means "Heath Hill", the "Over" referring to being above "Nether Haddon" (Haddon Hall).

Jane TAYLOR has this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 3 July 1800: MARRIED: A few days ago, Mr BENNETT, of Over Haddon, in this county, farmer and grazier, to Miss GLAZIER, of Barlings, near Lincoln. (The web page author could not find this marriage in other online sources. The closest find was in June 1808.)

• Nether Haddon was an ancient township in Bakewell parish in county Derby and was created as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• Over Haddon was an ancient township in Bakewell parish in county Derby and was created as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

• 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.

In 1827, the Will of Isaac BENNET of Haddon assigned his estate and effects to Robert JOHNSON of Bakewell Mercer, Thomas COOPER of Ashford Miller and William CHADWICK of Wishington [Lancaster] farmer.