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Great Hucklow
This page is a list of all information on my site relating to Great Hucklow so far there is the following:-
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census for 1841 is on the census page.
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census for 1861 is on the census page.
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extract from White's 1857 Trade Directory
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description from 1881 KELLY'S trade directory
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Photos of Great Hucklow to follow
description of Great Hucklow from the 1857 Trade Directory
Hucklow, Great, township and pleasant village,
on the Sheffield and Tideswell road, 2¼ miles N.E. from
Tideswell, contains 1,166 acres of land, partly on grit, and partly
on limestone, and in 1851, had 51 houses, and 232 inhabitants, of
whom 124 were male and 108 female; rateable value £965. Mrs
Wake, of Sheffield, is the lady of the manor and considerable owner.
The executors of late John Radford Esq., and several others, are
freeholders. This is a rich mineral district, and lead mines extend
east and west of the village, to a considerable distance. Mining is
the chief employment of the inhabitants . The Wesleyan Methodists
have a neat chapel here, erected in 1806, and the Unitarians have a
good one, erected in1796, of which the Rev. Robert Shenton is the
pastor. The Presbyterian congregation was first established at Great
Hucklow, by the Rev. William Bagshaw, acelebrated nonconformist
divine, commonly called the Apostle of the Peak; he was also a native
of the village.Great Hucklow was formerly parcel of the Duchy of
Lancaster, manor of the High Peak, on lease to the Duke of
Devonshire. Ralph de Archer, held a messuage and lands in Great
Hucklow, in the reign of Edward I., by the service of keeping the
King's forest with bow and arrows. A considerable freehold estate,
then called manor in Great Hucklow, belonged to the Earl of
Newcastle, in the reign of Charles I. This estate was sold to John
Bagshaw, Esq., of Hucklow, from whom it passed by descent to the
family of Rich, and the principal part was purchased some time ago by
John Radford, Esq., of Smalley, in whose family it is still vested.
Feast last Sunday in August.
CHARITIES,- John Bagshaw, by
will, in 1704, devised to his son, Samuel Bagshaw, and his heirs, a
meadow called Gill Meadow, in Driffield, on trust that they should
pay to each preaching minister as should serve in Great Hucklow, the
sum of £4 at Midsummer and Christmas, and should also pay yearly
the sum of £1 amongst the most indigent persons in Great
Hucklow, on the feast of St. Thomas. The above sums were paid by the
steward of Mr. Milnes, until about the year 1805. Upon the sale of
Mr. Milnes estate the payments were discontinued. We have not been
able to ascertain the owner of the land called Gill Meadow, in Driffield.
HUCKLOW (GREAT) TOWNSHIP
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Chapman George, stone mason |
Heginbotham Caleb, vict.,Queen's Head |
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Blacksmiths |
Gregory William |
Oldfield, Frost, and Somerst.
Shoemakers
Shopkeepers |
Walker George and Michael Tailors
Eyre Samuel Carrier to Sheffield Benjamin Turner, Tu, and Sat. |
description of Great Hucklow from the 1881 Trade Directory
Great Hucklow is a hamlet and township, in Bradwell parish, 2½ miles north-east from Tideswell, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of the High Peak, union and county court district of Bakewell. The Countess of Newburgh is lessee of the tithes under the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield: this was formerly a part of the Duchy of Lancaster manor of the High Peak. There are Unitarian and Methodist chapels.Mining is the principal employment of the inhabitants. Bernard Wake esq. is lord of the manor. The principal landowner is Childers Radford esq. The acreage is 1000; rateable value £1,708; the population in 1881 was 173. The nearest railway station is Miller's Dale on the Midland.
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Great Hucklow Ellis Rev. Henry Webb (Unitarian)
COMMERCIAL
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Maltby John, farmer and collector |
Photographs of Great Hucklow to follow