Place:Scarsdale Hundred, Derbyshire, England

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NameScarsdale Hundred
TypeHundred
Located inDerbyshire, England

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Scarsdale Hundred from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"SCARSDALE, a hundred in the N E of Derby; containing Alfreton parish, 30 other parishes, and part of 2 others; and giving the title of Baron to the family of Curzon. Acres: 144,187. Population in 1851: 60,971; in 1861: 79,978. Houses: 15,746."

Scarsdale Hundred covered the northwest corner of Derbyshire. In 1974 some of its parishes were transferred to Sheffield in the newly formed county of South Yorkshire.

The location of the hundred is shown on this copy of a Ordnance Survey map of 1832. A map locating the parishes of northeast Derbyshire is available on most of the pages for the parishes given below.

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Parishes, chapelries and townships

Ancient Parish Parish Status Subsidiary Places Subsidiary Place Status Notes
Alfreton ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Ault Hucknall ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Barlborough ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Beighton ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Blackwell ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Bolsover ancient parish, civil parish Glapwell hamlet, civil parish
Brampton ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Chesterfield ancient parish, civil parish Brimington chapelry, civil parish
Calow (near Chesterfield) township, civil parish
Hasland township, civil parish
Newbold and Dunston township, civil parish
Tapton township, civil parish
Temple Normanton township, civil parish
Walton chapelry, civil parish
Wingerworth chapelry, civil parish
Clowne ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Crich township, ancient parish, civil parish Wessington township/civil parish Only Wessington was ever part of Scarsdale Hundred (after 1866)
Dronfield ancient parish, civil parish Coal Aston township, civil parish
Dore chapelry, civil parish
Holmesfield chapelry, civil parish
Totley township, civil parish
Unstone township, civil parish
Eckington ancient parish, civil parish Killamarsh chapelry, civil parish
Elmton with Cresswell ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Heath ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Morton ancient parish, civil parish Brackenfield township, civil parish
North Wingfield ancient parish, civil parish Clay Lane township, civil parish known as Clay Cross after 1850
Pilsley (near Chesterfield) hamlet, civil parish
Stretton township, civil parish
Tupton township, civil parish
Woodthorpe township, civil parish
Norton ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Pinxton ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Pleasley ancient parish, civil parish Shirebrook chapelry, civil parish
Scarcliffe ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Shirland and Higham ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
South Normanton ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
South Wingfield ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Staveley ancient parish, civil parish Barlow chapelry, civil parish
Sutton cum Duckmanton ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units also known as Sutton Scarsdale
Tibshelf ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Upper Langwith ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Whittington ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units
Whitwell ancient parish, civil parish no lower level units

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.