Earl Sterndale Derbyshire Family History Guide

Earl Sterndale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1763 from a chapelry in Hartington Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Hartington Middle Quarter.

Alternative names: Earlsterndale

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1765
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1800

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Hartington
• Taxal
• Longnor
• Quarnford
• Sheen
• Chelmorton
• Macclesfield Forest with Wildboarclough
• Buxton
• Middleton and Smerrill
• King Sterndale
• Monyash

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EARL-STERNDALE, a chapelry in Hartington parish, Derby; on the river Dove, at the boundary with Stafford, 4¾ miles SSE of Buxton r. station, and 7½ W of Winster. It contains a hamlet of its own name; but is itself conterminate with Hartington-Middle-Quarter township. Post town, Hartington, under Ashborne. Real property, £3,844. Pop., 326. Houses, 69. The living is a p. curacy in the dio. of Lichfield. Value, £130. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church was rebuilt in 1828.

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

Parish Registers

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

Administration

• County: Derbyshire
• Civil Registration District: Bakewell
• Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Hartington
• Diocese: Lichfield
• Rural Deanery: Buxton
• Poor Law Union: Bakewell
• Hundred: Wirksworth
• Province: Canterbury