Froggatt

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

Alternatively, the Chapel-en-le-Frith Library is also an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• EDWARDS, Brian - Calver, Curbar and Froggatt in Old Photographs. Published by Northend of Sheffield. ISBN 0-9525064-9-1

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• Census transcripts can be found at the Wishful-Thinking site.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The ecclesiastical parish would have been in the rural deanery of Eyam.
   
• The Wesleyan Reform Chapel was built in 1834.
   
• Janet KIRK has a photograph of the Wesleyan Reform Chapel on the Wishful-Thinking site, dated February, 2004.
   
• John SLATER also has a photograph of the Wesleyan Reform Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.

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

"FROGGATT, a township in the parish of Bakewell, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Bakewell. It is situated on the river Derwent."

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

There's more to be found about the village at the Frogs.Co.NZ site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE has a transcription of the Froggatt entry from WHITE's "Sheffield and 20 miles round" (1862).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Froggatt entry under Curbar from KELLY's "Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland" (1891).
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE has a transcription of the Froggatt entry from KELLY's "Directory of Derbyshire" (1895).
   

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Froggatt entry under Bakewell from LEWIS's "Topographical Dictionary of England", 1831.

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

• The section of LYSONS' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Baslow, transcribed by Barbarann AYARS, includes the briefest mention of Froggatt.
   
• Terry ROBINSON has a photograph of the Chequers Inn, Froggatt Edge on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of the sign at Chequers Inn on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2021.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the bronze age stone circle on Froggatt Edge on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2018.
   
• The Froggatt Road Bridge is a 17th century structure listed as Class II by English Heritage.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK248769 (Lat/Lon: 53.288277, -1.628796), Froggatt 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.

• For a photograph of the Froggatt War Memorial and the names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.

• This place was an ancient Township in Curbar parish, Derbyshire, and was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, They periodic Parish Meetings of all citizens to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• 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.