Hasland

Hasland village is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop in the village at Eastwwod Park Dirve every fourth Tuesday in the early afternoon.

Grassmoor hamlet is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop at the Community Centre every fourth Friday in the afternoon.

Hady hamlet is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes two stops in the village (Car Park and The Square) every fourth Tuesday in the mid afternoon.

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

• HARTSHORN, Margaret Lily - Hasland Over the Years. Ashridge Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1901214338.

• Hasland set aside a 2-acre cemetery in 1883. 2 more acres were added in 1907.
   
• Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of Hasland Cemetery at Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   

• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
   
• Paul TAYLOR provides a list of surnames found in the 1901 census.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Paul.
   
• The church was built in 1851.
   
• The church seats 388.
   
• Alistair MORRIS has a photograph of St. Paul's Church at Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1851.
   
• We have a file of extracted Parish Register Marriages for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1899.
   
• The United Methodists built a chapel in Grassmoor.
   
• Michael PATTERSON has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Baptist Church on Eyre Street East on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2013.
   

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

"HASLAND, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2 miles S.E. of Chesterfield. The township adjoins the village of Wragby, of which it includes a portion. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Chesterfield, in the diocese of Lichfield. The principal residence is Hasland Hall."

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

• Birdholme, Boythorpe, Grasshill, Grassmoor, Hady and Hasland Green are hamlets in the parish.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2009. The Hall has since been refurbished. You should stop in and get a schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• Hasland is on the A61 south out of Chesterfield or north out of Alfreton.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

Hasland is mentioned as a township in Chesterfield in the Chesterfield entry in The National Gazetteer (1868).

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

• Coal was found in abundance here.
   
• Bricks were made here.
   
• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, transcribed by Barbarann AYARS, includes a portion on Hasland.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK392692 (Lat/Lon: 53.218415, -1.414393), Hasland 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.

• An Isolation Hospital was built here in 1904 by the Chesterfield Corporation. It contained 38 beds.
   
• Hospitals were not required to archive patient information, but the Archives may hold some administrative and financial data.
   

• Around the middle of the 17th century, Hasland Hall was the residence of Royalist Army Colonel Roger MOLINEUX, the son of Sir John MOLINEUX. We don't know much about the colonel, but he had served in the English Civil War and did marry Jane MONSON. He is also known to have held Wingfield Manor.
   
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of the War Memorial in Eastwood Park on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011.
   
• Roger TEMPLE has a photograph of the War Memorial just inside the gate at Barnes Park in Grassmoor on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.
   

Stephen KIMBERLEY reports that the Derbyshire Times of 19th August 1999 has an obituary for: KEANE Evelyn 76 Grassmoor.

Stephen KIMBERLEY reports that the Derbyshire Times of 19th August 1999 has an obituary for: McMENAMIN David 56 Boythorpe in Glasgow SCT.

• This place was originally a hamlet and Township in Chesterfield parish in Derby county.
   
• This place was incorporated as a separate, modern parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In March, 1894, Chesterfield swallowed a portion (431 houses) of this parish.
   
• In November, 1910, Chesterfield took another large bite (159 acres) out of this parish.
   
• You may contact the Joint Parish Council of Grassmoor Hasland & Winsick regarding civic and political matters, but they will NOT assist you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the North East Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chesterfield petty session hearings on Saturdays.
   
• There is an index of a single Hasland Bastardy Paper held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Hasland" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.

Three Public Elementary Schools were built in Hasland parish.

When Hasland Hall Mansion House was sold in 1924, the idea of Hasland Hall School was born. In 1931 conversion of the Hall and grounds began and the school opened in January 1932. 280 scholars attended on the first day.