Highlow

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2150
1861	R.G. 9 / 2543
1891	R.G. 12 / 2777

• The webpage author could find no evidence of a church or chapel in this location.

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

"HIGHLOW, a township in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 4 miles S.E. of Hope, and 3½ N.W. of Stoney Middleton. The Duke of Devonshire is the sole landowner."

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

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of Highlow Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.

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

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK230796 (Lat/Lon: 53.312841, -1.656252), Highlow which are provided by:

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• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
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• 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.)

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• This place was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The parish now funtions as a member of the Derbyshire Dales District).

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