Winster, Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Winster is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1727 from a chapelry in Youlgreave Ancient Parish.

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Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1674
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1663

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WINSTER, a township-chapelry, with a small decayed town, in Youlgreave parish, Derby; 2½ miles WSW of Darley r. station, and 4 W by N of Matlock. It has a post-office under Matlock-Bath, and a fair on Easter Monday. Acres, 1,047. Real property, £3,570. Pop., 971. Houses, 225. The property is much subdivided. Some curious ancient British relics were found in barrows in 1768. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £103. Patrons, the Inhabitants. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, an endowed school with £25 a year, and charities £8.

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

Administration

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