Rowland

The web-page author recommends the Library at Bakewell for researching this parish.

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

• The website author could find no history of a church in Rowland parish.
   
• The parish lies within the Chapelry of Baslow.

There being neither Church nor Chapel in this small hamlet, citizens would likely travel south to Great Longstone for baptisms, marriages and burials.

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

"ROWLAND: The townships of Curbar, Frogatt, and Rowland, lie within the chapelry of Baslow; the two former are in the manor of Baslow; Rowland is a manor belonging to the Earl of Newburgh."

[From Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817.
Transcription kindly donated by Barbarann AYARS, 10th Jan 2001]

Legend has it that the village was settled by Vikings in 875.

Andrew HILL has a photograph of Rowland on Geo-graph, taken in Sept., 2011.

And Neil THEASBY has a photograph of Rowland on Geo-graph, taken from the Rowland Reservoir in October, 2012.

Ian S. has a photograph of the Village Sign entering Rowland on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016. What? The sign is missing!?! Then YOU must supply one with adequate artistic skill and marketting savvy.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Rowland entry under Great Longstone in the Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Rowland entry under Bakewell from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• The transcription of the section for Rowland from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.
   
• John Marius WILSON's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72 tells us:

"ROWLAND, a township in Bakewell parish, Derby; 2 miles N of Bakewell. Pop., 70. Houses, 15. "

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

This parish has been mostly farmland for over 1,000 years.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK215725 (Lat/Lon: 53.249085, -1.679243), Rowland 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.

• This place was an ancient Township in Derbyshire and was made a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The citizens of Rowland Parish have elected to forgo a formal parish council. They have periodic Parish Meetings of all residents to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

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