Thornhill

Thornhill is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop at Nicholas Hall every fourth Thursday in the early afternoon.

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

The village had a Wesleyan Methodist chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.

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

"THORNHILL, a township in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 3 miles N.E. of Castleton, and 6 N.E. of Tideswell, near the river Noe."

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

This place is two miles east of Hope village, just south of Ladybower Reservoir.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Hope entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831. it is on this page that Thornhill is noted.
   

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

Chris WIMBUSH has a photograph of the Derwent Valley Heritage Trail on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009. This shot is from the north end of the village.

Just south of the village is the railway. Anne BURGESS has a photograph of the Rising Sun Inn on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014. The Inn is on the A618, just south of the village.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK198838 (Lat/Lon: 53.350481, -1.704309), Thornhill 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.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of December 29, 1803. MARRIED: "On Thursday last, at the parish church of Hope, in this county, Mr. Benjamin PEARSON, Jun. of Brough, to Miss ROBINSON, of Thornhill Carr; an accomplished young lady, with a handsome fortune."

• This place was an ancient township in the parish of Hope in Derbyshire.
   
• The township was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish holds an annual Parish Meeting of all the citizens to communicate civic and political decisions.
   
• The parish has a joint Parish Council with Bamford.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chapel-en-le-Frith petty session hearings once each month.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Chapel en le Frith Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1871	140
1881	118
1891	123
1901	119

A Public Elementary School was erected here in 1860 for 95 children. Average attendance in 1912 was 100.