Wheston

The Library at Tideswell is an excellent resource, but is normally open only two days per week.

Alternately, the Library at Chapel-en-le-Frith 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.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• The parish has an old Roadside Cross, as pictured on Geo-graph, taken in 2012.
   

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St John the Baptist's Church Tideswell contains entries for Wheston residents is available at some sources.

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

"WHESTON, a hamlet in the parish of Tideswell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 1 mile W. of Tideswell."

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

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Tideswell entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891). Wheston hamlet is mentioned in this entry.

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Tideswell entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831. Wheston hamlet is mentioned in this entry.

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

Colin Park has a photograph of the Wheston Cross on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2007. This cross is mentioned in the "Derbyshire Post Office Directory of 1912" and is noted as "Ancient", but no date is given.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK128791 (Lat/Lon: 53.308568, -1.809378), Wheston 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 Web Page author could find no mention of a War Memorial for Wheston parish.

• Rosemary LOCKIE advises that "Whetstone" is an acceptable variant of the parish name (from "Place Names of Derbyshire").
   
• Please note that there is a "Whetstone" parish in Leicestershire.

• This place was an ancient hamlet in Tideswell 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 parish has no online connection to its Parish Council. Consider volunteering to help them out.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

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