Millers Dale

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

TAlternatively, the nearby Tideswell Library also has a Local History section and a Family History section to assist you.

• The hamlet was in the Tideswell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   

• The church here was a chapel of ease to Tideswell, built in 1880.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Anne.
   
• The chapel seats 120.
   
• Ashley DACE has a photograph of St Anne's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2012.

• There is a CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St John the Baptist's Church Tideswell contains entries for Millers Dale ("Milnhouse Dale") residents.

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

"MILLAR'S DALE, a spot on the river Wye, under Raven's Tor, in the parish of Tideswell, county Derby, 4 miles N.W. of Bakewell."

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

Railway service ceased here in 1970, but the car park is still in use for visitors. There are many nature preserves in the area.

Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of part of Miller's Dale on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Millers Dale entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.

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

Miller’s Dale grew with the arrival of the Midland Railway in 1867, which linked Manchester with London. It was a busy community at that time, as a junction on the railway line and a centre for limestone quarrying.

Litton Mill was built in 1782 and operated as a textile mill until 1874. It is now a residential .

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK142733 (Lat/Lon: 53.256519, -1.78861), Millers Dale 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 just a hamlet in Tideswell parish.
   
• This hamlet 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 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this place became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.