Tibshelf

In 1911, the Colliery Club had a small reading room and library for members.

Tibshelf is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops by the Village Hall on Monday afternoons.

• The churchyard was enlarged by one acre in 1878.
   
• Neal THEASBY has a photograph of the Lychgate and the church tower at the Church of St John the Baptist on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015.
   

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2xxx
1861	R.G. 9 / 2425
1891	R.G. 12 / 2650

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist (some sources say Saint Peter).
   
• The church was built in the 13th century.
   
• The church tower was added in the 14th century.
   
• The church chancel was repaired in 1693.
   
• The present church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1729.
   
• The church nave was rebuilt in 1887-88.
   
• The church seats just over 300.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St John the Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.
   
• David BEVIS has a another good view of the church at Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   
• Neil THEASBY also has a nice view of Church of St John the Baptist, on Geo-graph,taken in July, 2015.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1627.
   
• We have a pop-up window of partially extracted Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Melbourne, later the rural deanery of Alfreton.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on High Street on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2014.

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

TIBSHELF has the somewhat dubious merit of being the site of a (new-ish) Service Area for the M1 Motorway!

Tibshelf is 142 miles north of London city and 4.5 miles north-north-east from Alfreton, just off the M1 motorway near Chesterfield. Tibshelf was described in 1857 as "one long street". The parish covered 2,400 acres.

Should you manage to get off the M1 near Saw Pit Lane, Derek HARPER provides a photograph of the Car park, Tibshelf Services on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2017.

Passenger rail service started in 1893 and ended in 1963.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The transcription of the section for Tibshelf from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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

• A number of the street names have been changed or dropped over time.
   
• Humphrey BOLTON has a photograph of The Royal Oak (renamed The Twisted Oak) on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2018.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of The former "Wheatsheaf" pub on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK439607 (Lat/Lon: 53.141648, -1.345174), Tibshelf 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.

• Major Reginald P. LEACH of the Royal Field Artillery lived in this parish in 1912. He would be a Lt.-Col. by 1916.
   
• Lt.-Col. Chambers DIDHAM of the 2nd Regt., Sherwood Foresters, lived in this parish in 1912 with his wife Constance Violet DIDHAM and their daughter.  Chambers was born in Tibshelf in March 1863.
   
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2011.
   
• Ian S. also has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.

• Andrew HESKETT provides a list of the men of Tibshelf who died in World War One.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of November 17, 1803: DIED: "On the 27th ult. aged 77, Mr TATEHAM, of Tibshelf, in this county, maltster."

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar offers this tidbit from the Derby Mercury of 22 March 1804 DIED: "On Sunday last, at Tibshelf, in this county, aged 74, Mrs. TATEHAM, relict of the late Mr. Samuel TATEHAM; universally respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintance."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was the heart of the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The parish was in the mid-division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Tibshelf Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they can NOT do family history look-ups for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bolsover District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alfreton petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.

The Staffa Street (mixed) school was built around 1820 and was later enlarged. Average attendance in 1911 was 188 boys and girls.

The Colliery Public Elementary School was built in 1873 for 151 boys, 151 girls and 173 infants.

An Infants' Public Elementary School was built here in 1893 for 173 children.

A "New Infants' School" was built in 1908 for 300 children.

David BEVIS also has a photograph of the Town End Junior School built in 1914 on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.