Place:Eaton and Alsop, Derbyshire, England

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NameEaton and Alsop
Alt namesAlsop le Dale and Eatonsource: place name variation
Alsop-le-Dale and Eatonsource: spelling variation
Alsop en le Dalesource: chapelry in parish
Alsop Moorsource: hamlet in current parish
Cold Eatonsource: hamlet in current parish
Eatonsource: shortened form of Cold Eaton
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates53.093°N 1.762°W
Located inDerbyshire, England
See alsoAshbourne, Derbyshire, Englandancient parish of which it was part
Wirksworth Hundred, Derbyshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Ashbourne Rural, Derbyshire, Englandrural district in which it was situated 1894-1974
Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, Englandadministrative district covering the area since 1974

NOTE: Long Eaton and Little Eaton are different places and are located east of the town of Derby.


A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Eaton and Alsop from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles of 1887:

"Eaton and Alsop-le-Dale, township, Ashborne parish, N. Derby[shire], 6 miles NW. of Ashborne, 1527 acres, population 58."

while the following description of Eaton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 also appears in A Vision of Britain through Time:

"EATON, in Ashborne parish, Derby. See Alsop-le-Dale."

which reads:

"ALSOP-LE-DALE and EATON, a chapelry in Ashborne parish, Derby; near the river Dove, 6 miles N by W of Ashborne [railway] station. Post Town: Parwich under Ashborne. Acres, with Newton-Grange hamlet: 2,264. Rated property: £1,558. Population: 76. Houses: 12. The property is not much divided. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £49. Patrons: the Inhabitants and Freeholders. The church is good." (Source:A Vision of Britain through Time)

Eaton and Alsop was originally a joint township in the ancient parish of Ashbourne in the Wirksworth Hundred of Derbyshire, England. It was made a civil parish in 1866 and in 1894 it became part of the Ashbourne Rural District. Newton Grange became a separate civil parish at that time. Since 1974 the parishes have been in the non-metropolitan Derbyshire Dales District.

Wikipedia states (a condensation of their article):
Alsop en le Dale is a village in Derbyshire, England about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Ashbourne close to the Staffordshire border, and a mile from Dovedale, a popular tourist location. The church of St. Michael and All Angels is of Norman origin, but was restored in the 19th century. The church serves the hamlets of Alsop Moor, Cold Eaton and Newton Grange. Alsop Hall opposite the church, was built in the late 16th century for the Alsop family [no link in Wikipedia]. The village formerly had a station on the railway line connecting Ashbourne and Buxton.

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Research Tips

  • Derbyshire Record Office website
  • British History Online (Victoria County Histories) does not appear to cover Derbyshire geographically. A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2, edited by William Page is a part-volume covering the religious houses of the county. No further volumes have been found.
  • GENUKI main page for Derbyshire which provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851 which gives the registration district and wapentake for each parish, together with statistics from the 1851 census for the area.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Derbyshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
  • For a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from the following selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile. Sections of the 1900 map showing parish boundaries only have been reproduced on some (but not all) parish pages here in WeRelate.
  • Map of Derbyshire illustrating urban and rural districts in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown.
  • Map of Derbyshire urban and rural districts in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. This is not a repeat of the first map. There were some changes in urban and rural district structure in the 1930s.
  • Ordnance Survey map of Derbyshire for 1967 This is the last in this series and was made while Derbyshire was experimenting with the non-metropolitan district structure adopted in 1974. It is a much cleaner map for reading the names of the civil parishes, but the smaller villages are no longer visible.
These are only three of the series of maps to be found in A Vision of Britain through Time.