Nether Padley

You will be well-served to use the Library at Tideswell with its Family History Section.

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides census extracts for Nether Padley at her Wishful Thinking site.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There was an Anglican Chapel in the Manor House, but the author has not found an Anglican church in the hamlet.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a church history of Nether Padley at her Wishful Thinking site.
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of Padley Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017. This was a Roman Catholic chapel.

• Any Anglican church or chapel would be in the rural deanery of Eyam.
   

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

"NETHER PADLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Bakewell, and 2½ N.E. of Stoney-Middleton. It is situated on the river Derwent."

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

The B6521 arterial road runs through the parish between Chesterfield and Sheffield.

The nearest passenger train service is at Grindleford Station. This is Chris MORGAN's photograph, taken in February, 2019.

Graham HOGG has a photograph of the view from Tumbling Hill on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2016.

Steven BURTON has a photograph of Padley Gorge on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Nether Padley entry from White's History, Gazetteer & Directory of the County of Derby, 1857.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Nether Padley entry under Hope from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

From "The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5":

" Padley, Nether, a township in Hope parish, Derbyshire, on the river Derwent, 6 ½ miles E by N of Tideswell. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Hope. Acreage, 308; population, 42. "

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

Padley Hall (or Padley Manor) was a large double courtyard house where, in 1588, two Catholic priests (Nicholas GARLICK and Robert LUDLUM) were discovered and then, two weeks later, hanged, drawn and quartered in Derby. They became known as the 'Padley Martyrs'. Padley Hall today is mostly in ruins, although part of it—probably originally the central gatehouse range—survives, and in 1933 was converted to a Roman Catholic chapel in honour of the martyrs. The chapel is a Grade I listed building, standing not far from the railway line.

Paul GLOVER has a photograph of a gremlin keeping an eye on the walkers on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2006.

The Maynard Arms Hotel lists itself as being in Grindleford, but it really stands in Nether Padley. Graham HOGG has a photograph of the rear entrance and outside patio on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.

And Peter BARR has a photograph of the Maynard Arms front and parking area on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2009.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK252779 (Lat/Lon: 53.297815, -1.623216), Nether Padley 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.

• Nether Padley was formerly a Township of Hope parish.
   
• This place was an ancient hamlet and township in Hope parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• Upper Padley was formerly a Township of Hathersage.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1934, this parish gained 21 acres from Hathersage Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1987, Nether Padley joined with Eyam Woodlands, Stoke and Upper Padley to form Grindleford Civil Parish, all within the Peak District National Park.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at 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.