Brushfield

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

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

• The webpage author could find no record of a church or chapel in Brushfield. The nearest Anglican churches are in Tideswell and Eyam.

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

"BRUSHFIELD, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the N.W. of Bakewell."

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

The A6 motorway cuts through Brushfield. The River Wye snakes around the east and north sides of the parish. The parish covers only about 650 acres.

Bill BOADEN provides a photograph of Brushfield on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Most of the land in the parish was turned over to pasturage.
   
• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Ashford, transcribed by Barbarann AYARS, includes a portion on Brushfield.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK163719 (Lat/Lon: 53.243932, -1.756459), Brushfield 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 the parish of Bakewell in Derby county and it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1934, this parish gained 4 acres from Little Longstone Civil Parish.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, They hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political matters.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

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

Children of this villge attended the school at Taddington.