658

 

SCARSDALE HUNDRED.

 

Is bounded on the north by Yorkshire, where the north-east point considerably protrudes, and the Shire Oak stands where the counties of Derby, York, and Nottingham converge. A fine thriving young oak occupies the site of the original tree, which is not remembered by any person now living. From this point it has Nottingham on the east. This boundary is very irregular, but very romantic, partly on sandstone and partly on lime, and the south side of this hundred very narrow, where it is bounded by the Morleston and Litchurch hundred, and on the west by the High Peak and the Wirksworth hundreds. It is very extensive, and the most populous hundred in the county, and forms a deeply undulating district, mostly a strong soil, in a high state of cultivation, of which a full proportion is arable. It abounds in coal and ironstone, and has extensive blast furnaces for smelting the ironstone, with foundries and forges for manufacturing bar iron. The northern boundary is partly included in the Sheffield corporation of Cutlers, (which extends six miles around that town,) and is the great seat of the manufacture of scythes, sickles, reaping-hooks, &c. It contains 144,614 statute acres of land. The houses are mostly built with stone and roofed with slate, though some yet remain thatched; and the north-east angle of the hundred is noted for the number of ancient yew trees growing there.

 

The following table is an enumeration of its 35 parishes, shewing their territorial extent, the annual value, and their population from 1801 to 1851, as returned at the five decennial periods of the parliamentary census.

 

* The letters after the names signify P for Parish, C for Chapelry, and T for Township.

 

		Rate-	POPULATION.					1851.
Parishes.	Acreg	able
		Value	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	Hses.	Males.	Fmles.	Total.
Alfreton, p.  . . . . .	4570	12761	2301	3396	4689	5691	7577	1638	4292	4034	8326
Ashover, p.  . . . . .	9099	8379	2119	2377	2506	2504	2603	577	1220	1225	2445
Dethick and     Lea, (a) c.  . . . .	1403	3105	509	487	492	675	879	185	414	452	866
Ault or Hault   Hucknall, p.  . . .	4221	3262	492	511	605	618	678	136	375	315	690
Barlborough, p. . .	3268	7580	677	609	675	713	804	177	495	438	933
Barlow Great, p.  .	3335	2511	552	5667	652	639	627	128	342	294	636
Beauchief Abbey,   (ex par.) . . . . .	780	850	102	98	97	88	74	24	62	71	153
Beighton, p. . . . .	2999	6124	634	717	856	980	1121	241	559	564	1123
Blackwell, p. . . .	1668	1609	420	429	457	432	477	98	217	250	467
Bolsover, p. . . . .	4702	4665	1091	1043	1245	1330	1421	357	792	720	1512
Glapwell, t. . . . . .	739	662	109	103	110	99	91	21	54	45	99
Brackenfield and   Woolley, p. . . .	1495	1795	300	322	353	363	459	82	192	207	399
Brampton, p. . . .	7920	10288	2047	2260	2632	3594	3937	971	2202	2207	4409
Brimington, p. . .	1522	4014	503	526	629	759	780	243	560	543	1103
Chesterfield, p. .	212	18379	4267	4476	5077	5775	6212	1525	3473	3628	7101
Calow, t. . . . .	1275	1632	269	327	395	569	536	123	279	292	571
Hasland, t. . . .	1981	7466	560	697	770	889	926	280	595	581	1176
Newbold & Dnn-     stan, t. . . . . ..	2915	6112	781	841	962	1140	1527	452	1031	1004	2035
Tapton, t . . . .	652	2171	148	127	149	171	178	37	99	115	214
Temple or North     Normanton, t.	498	614	141	151	141	146	132	27	58	49	107
Walton, t. . . . .	2326	4170	661	720	783	935	940	227	555	559	1114
Clown, p. . . . . .	1919	2344	485	515	616	637	677	156	330	330	660

 

                                                                                SCARSDALE HUNDRED.                                                  659

 

		Rate-	POPULATION.					1851.
Parishes.	Acreg	able
		Value	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	Hses.	Males.	Fmles.	Total.
Dore, p. . . .. . .	3271