Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HATHERSAGE

HATHERSAGE, a village and a township in Bakewell district, and a parish partly also in Chapel-en-leFrith district, Derby. The village stands on the river Derwent, in the midst of a mountainous tract, 2 miles S of tlie boundary with Yorkshire, and 10 N of Bakewell r. station; and has a post office‡ under Sheffield, and a fair on the Friday after Old-Michaelmas day. The township includes the village, and extends far into the counPop., in 1851, 832; in 1861, 990. Houses, 197. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of wire drawing and needle manufacture, and the introduction of the manufacture of nmbrella frames. Other articles akin to needles are made; and likewise millstones. A Danish camp is supposed to have been at Camp-Green, near th village.—The parish contains also the chapelry of StoneyMiddleton, and the townships of Outseats, Bamford, and Derwent. Acres, 13, 630. Real property, £10, 421. Pop., in 1851, 2, 106; in 1861, 2, 391. Houses, 490. The property is much subdivided. Longshaw is a shooting box of the Duke of R.utland. Hathersage Hall was the seat of the Shuttlewortlis. Rocking stones are on the moors. The living is a vicara n the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £180. * Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is later English; was well restored in 1851; consists of nave, chancel, aisles, and Lady chapel, with tower and handsome spire; and contains an ancient tomb of the Eyres. A spot in the churchyard was said to be the grave of Little John, the companion of Robin Hood; and is now marked by two upright stones, 9 feet apart; and remains of a human body were long ago exhumed from it, in a state of petrifaction. The chapelries of Stoney-Middleton, Bamford, and Derwent, are separate benefices. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a Roman Catholic chape1, a national school, and charities £72.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village and a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Derbyshire AncC
Place: Hathersage

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