Youlgreave

Youlgreave is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes two stops in the village every fourth Friday in the late afternoon.

You may want to use the Library in Bakewell, which has a Local Studies Section and is open six days per week.

• ARDLEY, Bridget & BARTLETT, Mary - The Spirit of Youlgreave. Landmark, 2003. ISBN 1-84306-083-3.
   
• WILSON, Norman - Youlgreave Remembers. Published privately, 2005. No ISBN. Added 31 Jul 2005.

Bill BOADEN has a photograph of the Public Footpath thru the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.

You may want to visit the tomb of Thomas and Sarah BATEMAN. Thomas was a noted archaeologist in the middle of the nineteenth century. Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Bateman Tomb in Middleton on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.

• The parish was in the Bakewell sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• The Gratton portion of the parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2149
1861	R.G. 9 / 2540 and 2541
1891	R.G. 12 / 2775

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built in the 12th century.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1869-70.
   
• The church seats 500.
   
• Stephen G. TAYLOR has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2004.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
   
• The churchwarden accounts exist from 1604.
   
• Michael SPENCER has extracted a partial list of Parish Register burials for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
   
• The Congregationalist chapel was built here in 1853.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1891.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here before 1891.
   
• And the Reformed Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here in 1857.
   
• Michael DIBB has a photograph of the Methodist Reform chapel on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.
   
• The Anglican church records are held at the Derbyshire Record Office, Ernest Bailey Building, New Street, Matlock. These records also appear to be available on microfilm at the Family History Library. These include:

1. Baptisms 1558-1980
2. Marriages 1558-1718, 1721-1988
3. Banns 1754-1797
4. Burials 1558-1956

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

"YOULGRAVE is a village in the parish of its name, which is partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, and partly in that of High Peak; about 3 miles S. by W. from Bakewell. It contains the parish church, a good building, dedicated to All-Saints, and a place of worship each for the Wesleyan and primitive methodists. The living of Youlgrave is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire: the present incumbent is the Rev. Benjamin Pidcock. The parish contained, at the last census, 3,081 inhabitants, and the township 951 of that number."

Youlgrave lies 157 miles north of the City of London.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Village Sign as you enter Youlgrave on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Youlgreave entry under Bakewell from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Youlgreave entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

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

Michael DIBB has a photograph of the Farmyard Inn on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK212644 (Lat/Lon: 53.176288, -1.684274), Youlgreave 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.

There is a First World War Memorial inside All Saints Church, mounted on the wall.

Basher EYRE has a photograph of the First World War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015.

And Basher has another photograph of a Memorial Plaque on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015.

The Commonwealth War Graves (data from the CWGC site) are for:

• Anciently, the name appears as "Giolgrave."
   
• A village described by local historian and teacher Mr J. W. SHIMWELL as 'the most mis-spelt village', the Youlgrave Website tells it all!
   
• The pronunciation of the place-name varies; in broad Derbyshire dialect it would be 'YolgrEEve'; the more polite version sounds closer to what one would expect from the spelling - 'Youl-grAve'.

• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012. Stop in when they are open and ask for a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• Middleton township was spun off as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Youlgrave Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Peak District Council.

• 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.

A Church of England (mixed) school was erected here in 1861 for 300 children.