Stoke

There are no Library facilities in Stoke. The web-page author recommends using the County Library at Bakewell.

Alternatively, the Chapel-en-le-Frith 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 provides a transcription of the 1891 census for Stoke on her website. You will note that she also has the 1841, 1861, 1871 and 1881 transcriptions at that site.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

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

"STOKE, a township in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Bakewell, and 1½ mile N.E. of Stoney-Middleton, on the river Derwent."

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

The River Derwent lies just to the east.

• Geograph
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• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Hope entry where Stoke is briefly noted in the Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

• Stoke was formerly a Township of Hope parish. It was transferred to Eyam in 1911; then in 1987 it became part of the "modern" parish of Grindleford.

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817,for Stoke by Barbarann AYARS.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK235765 (Lat/Lon: 53.285107, -1.648314), Stoke 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.

• Stoke Quarry has for many years provided quality stone for a variety of purposes, and employment for many local stonemasons and labourers. Today, mechanisation has replaced many of the traditional skills, such as stone cutting, and gathering, and whilst one might regret the loss of such skills, in the past workers were subject to respiratory diseases such as silicosis, and accidents caused by unguarded equipment and rock falls. Mechanisation and more safety precautions make such hazards less of an issue for today's workers.

• This place was an ancient township in Hope parish in Derbyshire and became a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The author of this page believes the parish is a member of the Derbyshire Dales District Council, but has been unable to verify that.

• 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.