Atlow

The Ashbourne Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• By 1911, the parish was re-allocated to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saints Philip and James.
   
• The church was built in 1874 on Atlow Lane to replace the old church of All Saints (part of Bradbourne Priory) and was consecrated in May of 1874.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• The church is Grade II listed with British Heritage.
   
• John POYSER has a photograph of Atlow Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2006.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1685 for burials and baptism and from 1698 for marriages.
   
• Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
   
• The Wishful Thinking site has some Atlow memorial inscriptions you may find useful.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• By 1911, the parish was re-allocated to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.

"ATLOW, a chapelry in the parish of Bradborne, and hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the N.E. of Ashbourne. It is situated in a pleasant district on the river Dove, and from a lofty hill, called Magger's Bush, not far from the village, there is a fine prospect. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value of £148, in the patronage of C. H. Oakover, Esq."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The modern parish of Atlow is 145 miles north of London, 12 miles north-west of Derby city and 5 miles south-west from Wirksworth.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Atlow entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Atlow entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72" describes this place as:

"ATLOW, a chapelry in Bradbourne parish, Derby; on a branch of the river Dove, 4½ miles-NE by E of Ashborne r. station. Post Town, Ashborne. Acres, 1,580. Real property, £1,926. Pop., 129. Houses, 26. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £148. Patron, C H. Okeover, Esq. The church is tolerable."

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Atlow to another place.

Most of the land in the parish has been set aside for pasturage for several hundred years.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK231488 (Lat/Lon: 53.035701, -1.657482), Atlow which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The Atlow War Memorial consists of a brass vase dedicated to the memory of George William WORMAN, a private in the first Btln., Derbyshire Yeomanry who died 28th November 1917, aged 22.

Called "Etalawe" at the 1066 Domesday Survey.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this notice from the Derby Mercury of 24 March 1803: "MARRIED: On Saturday, at Atlow, Mr. John WAGSTAFF, farmer and horse dealer, to Miss Alice LEE, daughter of Mr. Robert LEE, of Hognaston, in this county."

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Bradbourne parish and became a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This citizens of Atlow parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council. They have periodic Parish Meetings of all the citizens to discuss political and civic issues. There is no one to help you with family history questions.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashbourn petty session hearings.
   
• There is a single Atlow Bastardy Paper held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Atlow" from the list of parishes displayed. Yes, the name "Atlow" is misspelled on the entry.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.
   

A National School (mixed) was built here in 1863 for 60 stuents.

John POYSER has a photograph of Atlow School on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2006.