Beeley

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

• NAYLOR, Diane - The Chatsworth Villages - Beeley, Edensor & Pilsley. Landmark, 2005. ISBN 1-84306-198-8.
   
• TAYLOR, Keith - Baslow, Rowsley, Edensor, Pilsley, Beeley. Ashridge Press/Country Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-906789-06-0.

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Anne.
   
• Parts of the church fabric date back to 1150.
   
• The church was extensively restored in 1884.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of St. Anne's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2013.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1890.
   
• Martin SPECK has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2012.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.

"BEELEY, a chapelry in the parish and union of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 5 miles to the S.E. of Bakewell, and 6 N.W. from Matlock. It is situated on the river Derwent, and has a stone quarry on Beeley Moor, from which the well-known grindstones are obtained. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, val. £98, in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The church, dedicated to St. Anne, is an old building with a low tower. There are several small charities, of the value of £7 per annum. There is a free school, erected and supported by the Duke of Devonshire, who is lord of the manor and chief landowner."

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

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012. You may want to stop in and ask for a schedule of forthcoming events.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

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

• The Devenshire Arms appears to have been the only Public House operating in the parish in the last 150 years.
   
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Beeley by Barbarann AYARS.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK266676 (Lat/Lon: 53.20481, -1.603219), Beeley 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.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Bakewell parish in Derby county and it was incorporated as a seperate, modern CIvil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• You may contact the local parish council regarding civic or political matters, but they can NOT help you with family history questions.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake) in the Western division of the county.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings.
   
• There is an index of a handful of Beeley Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Beeley" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.

A Church or England (mixed) Girls School was erected in 1851 for 60 boys, girls & infants; average attendance in 1890, 44 children.