King Sterndale

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

• Critchlow, Joyce - A History of King Sterndale, 'Church in the Market Place' Publications, 2009. No ISBN. Added 5 Apr 2009.

• The parish was in the Buxton sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Christ.
   
• The church was built in 1847.
   
• The church is noted on Wikipedia's Website.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1851.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Buxton.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Buxton sub-district of the Chapel en le Frith Registration District.

"KING'S STERNDALE, a hamlet in the parish of Bakewell, county Derby, 3 miles S.E. of Buxton, on the river Wye.

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

The little hamlet of King's Sterndale can only be reached by car from one direction off of the A515. The parish also contains the hamlets of Cowdale and Staden. Roger MAY provides a photograph of the base of the Market Cross on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK095721 (Lat/Lon: 53.245837, -1.859095), King Sterndale 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 War Memorial stands near the side of the church in the churchyard.

From the WWI War Memorial: "These men from this Parish fell fighting for their Country"

1. WALTER BENNETT M.M. Sergeant Royal Field Artillery
2. JOHN DUGDALE, Driver, M.T. Royal Army Service Corps
3. ERNEST MOSS, Trooper, Derbyshire Yeomanry
4. JOHN ROBERT RILEY, Private, The Welsh Regiment.

• This Chapelry was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1894.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Buxton petty session hearings held on the last Saturday of each month.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1773.
   
• As a result of the Poor Law Amenment reforms of 1834, the parish was in the Chapel en le Frith Poorlaw Union.