Longstone

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

THORNHILL, Robert - Longstone Notes. Edited by M L STUART and published by Longstone Local History Group, 1992.
Robert THORNHILL was born in 1892. He always had a keen interest in local and family history, and on his death, in 1973, the archives and papers he'd collected during his lifetime were presented to the Derbyshire Record Office. This publication reproduces his "Notes on Longstone Church, Village and People"; with two Appendixes. The first Appendix is a summary of the Will of the author's great grandfather, another Robert Thornhill who died in 1820; the second Appendix lists a selection of Robert Thornhill's other publications - mainly articles in Derbyshire Miscellany, the bulletin of the Local History Section of the Derbyshire Archaeological Society.

Note: This may be out of print, but Local Libraries in Derbyshire should have copies. Rosemary Lockie's copy is a slim A5-size booklet with a blue cover.

• 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 Giles.
   
• The church was constructed in the 13th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1873.
   
• The church seats 300.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. Giles Church at Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
   
• John SALMON has a photograph of the church interior at Geo-graph, taken in 1991.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1638.
   
• Here is a list of Longstone Parish Registers available on Microfilm from LDS Family History Libraries. Film Numbers are reproduced on GENUKI by kind permission of the Genealogical Society of Utah.

• The Bishops' Transcripts covering the period 1665-1864, are known to have gaps 1667-69; 1681-83; 1750-53; 1757-67.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
   
• There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built here before 1891.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the Methodist chapel on Station Road on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.
   
• There was a Congregationalist chapel built here before 1891.

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

To my mind, at least, LONGSTONE tends to be synonymous with Great Longstone [Rosmary LOCKIE, 2010].

• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the 15th century Village Cross on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Eyam and Bakewell Community Transport depot on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Great Longstone entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Great Longstone from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Longstone by Barbarann AYARS.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK198733 (Lat/Lon: 53.256714, -1.704445), Longstone 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.

• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on Main Street on the Geo-graph website.
   
• The War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure with British Heritage.
   
• The memorial is "Erected in honour and memory of the men of Great Longstone Who gave their ALL in the Great War 1914-1919"

The War Memorial inscription is:

1914-1918

1. DIXON Hubert
2. ELLIOTT Herbert, pte, 29th MGC
3. FURNISS George
4. HEWITT James
5. JEFFCOAT Stanley
6. MORTON Arthur
7. MORTON Fred
8. ROBINSON Harold
9. ROBINSON Robert
10. SLACK Fred Cowen, pte. 1st Grenadier Guards
11. SUTER Frank Thomas William, pte. 23rd Cheshire Regt.
12. WARD Arthur, pte, North Staffs Regt.
13. WARD John
    
    1939 - 1945
14. HAMILTON William E.
15. HURST Richard H.
16. PLOWRIGHT Robert S. C.
17. TIMM James
18. WARING John

Arthur WARD has the only Commonwealth War Grave in St. Giles Cemetery.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of December 8, 1803: DIED: "On Thursday last in the 72nd year of his age, Robert WRIGHT Esq. of Great Longstone, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this county."

• This place was an ancient township in Bakewell parish in Derbyshire and became a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Longstone Parish Council regarding political or social issues, but they are NOT staffed to do family history searches for you.
   
• This parish is part of the Derbyshie Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bakewell petty session hearings each Friday.
   
• There is an index of Longstone Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Great Longstone" 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.