Offerton

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

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE has the Offerton 1901 census at Wishful Thinking. The 1891 census is there also.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The webpage author could find no evidence of a church or chapel here.

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

"OFFERTON, a hamlet in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 7 miles N. of Bakewell, and 5 N.E. of Tideswell. It is situated on the river Derwent."

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

Offerton was also a township in Hope Parish.

Steven RUFFLES suggests this spot cross the River Derwent on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of Offerton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK211812 (Lat/Lon: 53.327434, -1.684723), Offerton 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.

There is no War Memorial in Offerton. The nearby memorial at Hope may have some Offerton names on it.

• This place was an ancient hamlet in Hope parish in Derby county.
   
• The township (including the hamlet of Offerton) was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• In August, 1882, the Civil Parish gained a part of Outseats Civil Parish.
   
• Offerton has joined with Abney, Abney Grange and Highlow to form a Joint Parish Council. Remember, they are NOT funded or staffed to help with family history searches, only civic and political issues.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

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