CHELMORTON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CHELMORTON, a chapelry in the parish of Bakewell, in the hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles S.W. of Tideswell, and 7 W. of Bakewell. It is situated at the foot of a high hill. The inhabitants are principally engaged in the ribbon manufacture. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £78, in the patronage of the Vicar of Bakewell. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a stone building with a fine spire, built in the year 1111.

The Independents have a place of worship, which is sometimes used by the Methodists. There is a parochial school, to which £11 per annum was bequeathed by William Brocklehurst about 1792. In the neighbourhood are two barrows, one opened in 1782 being 80 yards in circuit, and in which were discovered a number of human skeletons in stone coffins. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor. The feast is held on New Year's Day."

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