Ashford Derbyshire Family History Guide

Ashford is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1731 from chapelry in Bakewell Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Ashford in the Water

Other places in the parish include: Brushfield.

Status: Ecclesiastical Parish

Alternative names: Ashford

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1687
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1669

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASHFORD, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Bakewell parish, Derby.

The village stands on the river Wye, adjacent to the Buxton railway, in a charming situation, surrounded by high hills near Monsaldale, 1 mile WNW of Hassop r. station, and 2 NW of Bakewell. It has a post office under Bakewell; and it carries on stocking-making, spinning., and a trade in marble.

Mills for the cutting and polishing of marble were erected in its vicinity in 1748, and are the oldest establishments of their kind in England. Marbles of many tints, but chiefly black and grey, are found adjacent, about 40 feet beneath the surface, in nine beds from 3 to 9 inches thick; and are manufactured at the mills into a great variety of ornamental articles.

Ashford Hall, in the neighbourhood, is the seat of the Cavendish family; and the manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. A spot near the church was the site of the mansion of Edward Plantagenet, of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, now traceable only by the moat.

The township and the chapelry are co-extensive. Real property, £5,195. Pop., 829. Houses, 172.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £102. Patron, the Vicar of Bakewell. The church is ancient.

There are chapels for Methodists and Unitarians, free schools for boys and girls, and charities £20.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Ashford, 1½ miles Bakewell. P. 950

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Parish Registers

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

FamilySearch Historical Records

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Derbyshire, Ashford – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Ashford, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Derbyshire, Ashford – Church records ( 6 )
Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire, England, marriages, 1669-1767

Bishop’s transcripts for Ashford, 1667-1865
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Ashford (Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Ashford, parish registers, 1875-1910
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Ashford (Derbyshire); Derbyshire Record Office

The feudal history of the county of Derby (chiefly during the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries)
Author:    Yeatman, John Pym, b. 1820; Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Earl of, 1846-1907; Sitwell, George Reresby

Parish chest materials, 1631-1880
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Ashford (Derbyshire)

Parish registers for Ashford, 1687-1959
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Ashford (Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Ashford – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Ashford, Derby., Eng

Parish register printouts of Ashford, Derby, England ; christenings, 1710-1865
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Derbyshire, Ashford – Military records ( 1 )
Aspects of Dales’ life through peace and war : Bakewell, Great Longstone, Little Longstone, Hassop, Wardlow, Rowland, Over Haddon, Ashford in the Water, Sheldon
Author:    Taylor, Keith

England, Derbyshire, Ashford – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 2 )
England, Derbyshire, Ashford, poor law records, 1815-1933
Author:    Derbyshire Record Office

Poor law records, 1699-1844
Author:    Ashford (Derbyshire)

England, Derbyshire, Ashford – Schools ( 1 )
England, Derbyshire, Ashford, Ashford C of E School, admission registers
Author:    Derbyshire Record Office

Maps

Historical Maps

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bakewell
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Bakewell
  • Poor Law Union: Bakewell
  • Hundred: High Peake
  • Province: Canterbury