Blackwell

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

• The parish was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• There are 1891 Census records at the Rosemary Lockie Wishful Thinking site.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• The church spire was added in the 15th century.
   
• The church was restored and re-opened in 1874.
   
• Andrew McCann has a photograph of St. John's Church at the Wishful Thinking site, taken in 1999.
   
• The church seats 300.
   
• The church is Grade II listed with English Heritage.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1590.
   
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• The church would have been in the rural deanery of Buxton.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here in the early 1900s.

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

"BLACKWELL, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the E. of Buxton. The river Wye flows near this place."

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

Also known as "Blackwell by Chelmorton" to differentiate it from "Blackwell by Alfreton". The village and parish report themselves to be the highest in Derbyshire and one of the highest in all England. The stream which flows by the place is locally called the "Illy Willy Water." The stream runs from a spring for about a quarter mile before disappearing underground. David STOWELL has a photograph of the parish at Geograph, taken in October, 2008.

Ian S. has a wintertime photograph of Blackwell on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Trek up to the "Fivewells Cairn", the highest Neolithic tomb in England.
   
• Steven RUFFLES has a photograph of the "Five Wells Chambered Tomb" on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Blackewell by Barbarann AYARS.
   
• The Church Inn dates from 1742, when it was known as the Blacksmith's Arms.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK124723 (Lat/Lon: 53.247575, -1.815629), Blackwell 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 township in Taddington parish in Derbyshire.
   
• The township was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings each Friday.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.