Little Hucklow

The Chapel-en-le-Frith 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.
   
• A transcription of the 1861 census is online at Liz Sparkes' site.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The inhabitants of this parish used the Anglican church at Bakewell or at Great Hucklow.

• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1826.

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

"LITTLE HUCKLOW, a hamlet in the parish of Hope, hundred of High Peak, county Derby, 2 miles N.N.E. of Tideswell, adjoining the above." [Recorded as HUCKLOW PARVA in Gazetteer - RL 2003]

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

Windmill is a hamlet one mile south of Littel Hucklow.  Copledale  (or Coplow Dale) lies about 1 mile NNW of Little Hucklow.  The parish lies within the Peak District National Park, about one mile west of the B6049 arterial road.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• The village held its annual feast on the last Sunday in August.
   
• Ye Olde Bulls Head - the fifth oldest pub in England. "The pub has been home to a long line of innkepers who were also miners and farmers" - nice one! :)
   
• Graham HOGG has a photgraph of the Bulls Head Pub on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012. The pub closed in 2005. As of 2015, an offer has been made on the property. In 2020, it re-opened as the Blind Bull.
   
• These are the proprietors listed in various directories for The Bulls Head:

The Manor House stands next to the Blind Bull Pub.

The Little Hucklow Manor House is a grade II* structure withEnglish Heritage.

The Francis Frith Collection includes maps and historic photos of Little Hucklow.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK158785 (Lat/Lon: 53.303602, -1.765069), Little Hucklow 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 parish was an ancient hamlet in the parish of Hope. In December, 1866, it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• Today, the parish has a joint Parish Council with Great Hucklow, and Grindlow.
   
• Today, the parish is part of the Derbyshire Dales District.

• 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.