Wardlow

There used to be a Reading Room in Wardlow, but it has been converted to a holiday accommodation. Peter BARR has a photograph of the Reading Room (undergoing conversion) on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009.

You may want to use the library at Tideswell with a Local History section and a Family History section for local research.

"BB" has a photograph of the Wardlow Church Yard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2002.

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

• Wardlow was originally a Chapel of Ease for several local parishes.
   
• In the early 1800s Sunday services were held in a schoolroom.
   
• The Anglican parish chapel is dedicated to the Good Shepherd.
   
• The chapel was built in 1873.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Chapel, covered in snow on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1873.
   
• Michael SPENCER and Louis MILLS have put together a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a list for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcome.
   
• Monument Inscriptions from the churchyard can be found at the Reverend Thrower website.

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

"WARDLOW a small village and township 2 miles E. by S. from Tideswell, partly in Bakewell parish.

WARDLOW MIRES, a hamlet, situated partly in the township of Wardlow, Great Hucklow, and Litton; it is also noticed with Bakewell parish."

[Descriptions from White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, 1857]

• Peter BARR has a photograph of Wardlow with snow on the peaks behind it on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Bakewell entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835). Wardlow is mentioned as a Township.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Wardlow entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Wardlow entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• The transcription of the section for Wardlow from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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

• A turnpike road was built through the village in 1759. It uncovered a circular heap of stones within which 17 bodies were entombed in stone coffins.
   
• The village feast was held on the first Sunday after Sept. 11th.
   
• In the 1800s this was prime grazing land for dairy animals.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the former Bulls Head pub on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
   
• Tom COURTNEY has a photograph of the Three Stags Heads pub. on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2000.
   
• Colin PARK also has a photograph of the Three Stags Heads pub. on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2015. The pub is in Wardlow Mires.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK186747 (Lat/Lon: 53.268833, -1.722906), Wardlow 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.

The 1831 Overseers Accounts for Tideswell mention: Josh BAMFORD Wardlow receiving a Militia Bounty for signing-up.

The War Memorial is located inside the Church of the Good Shepherd, Castlegate Lane. It is a white marble slab with black or dark grey inscription.

The War Memorial reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
PRIVATE BENJAMIN H. GREGORY, 10th DEVON'S WHO FELL IN ACTION
AT SALONICA, APRIL 24th 1917, AGED 19 YEARS.

PRIVATE WILLIAM HASLAM, SHERWOOD FORESTER'S, WHO FELL
IN ACTION AT ARRAS, FRANCE, NOVEMBER 4th 1917, AGED 22 YEARS.

THEY NOBLY ANSWERED DUTY'S CALL, AND GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR ONE AND ALL.

PRIVATE ALFRED J. TURNER, 2nd BATT. KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS,
WHO FELL IN ACTION IN BURMA, FEBRUARY 23rd 1945, AGED 28 YEARS.

• This place was an ancient Township in Bakewell parish in Derby county and it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council. Instead, they hold periodic Parish Meetings of all the citizens 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 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1851	191
1871	172
1881	163
1891	140

In 1730, Cornelius BRUSHFIELD of Wardlow left a Will.

n 1755, Bernard BRUSHFIELD of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1859, Nathaniel SOMERSETT of Wardlow Meirs (Mires) left a Will.

In an 1866 will, Francis ROBINSON, a Wardlow farmer, mentions:

1. bro. George
2. bro. John
3. wife Elizabeth
4. Samuel ROBINSON witness

In 1867, Samuel ROBINSON left a Will.

In 1873, Joseph GREGORY of Wardlow left a will,

In 1878, John ROBINSON of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1883, George ROBINSON of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1886, William TAYLOR of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1891, John THORNHILL of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1894, John BIRLEY of Wardlow left a will.

In 1899, Joshia SELLORS of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1910, Robert OUTRAM of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1913, Alfred SELLARS of Wardlow left a Will.

In 1921, Thomas FURNESS of Wardlow Mires left a Will.

A National School (mixed) was erected in 1833 & enlarged by subscription in 1872 to hold 45 children.