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CROMFORD, Derbyshire

"CROMFORD, a market-town and township, in the parish of Wirksworth, situate about midway between that town and Matlock, is eminently distinguished by the extensive cotton works, established by the late Sir Richard Arkwright, the father of the improvements effected in this branch of trade in this country. These works are now in the proprietary of Messrs. Peter Arkwright and Co. which, with the lead mines, smelting works, manufacture of red lead, grinding and preparing calaminaris, &c. give employment to a great number of hands, and renders this village of high importance in a mercantile view, to which the Cromford canal, and "Cromford and High Peak railway", are great auxiliaries." [There is further information for Cromford]

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Bibliography Cemeteries Census Church Records Description and Travel

Early 20thC Map Click to view larger area.

Directories Gazetteers History Occupations Societies

Bibliography

• Allsop, Eddie - Around Cromford Dam. Scarthin Books, 2005.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Around Cromford Dam’ (Peak Advertiser, 15th August 2005)

• Potter, Hugh - The Cromford Canal. Tempus, 2003.
  Read more in this Review of ‘The Cromford Canal’ (Peak Advertiser 20th October 2003)

• Naylor, Peter J - Cromford - A History. Watnay Publishing, 2003.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Cromford - A History’ (Peak Advertiser 13th January 2003)

• Memories of Cromford : A Derbyshire Village seen through the eyes of its people 1900 - 2000. Cromford Womens' Institute, 2001.
  Read more in this Review of ‘Memories of Cromford’ (Peak Advertiser 9th July 2001)

Cemeteries

• Cromford Village in Derbyshire - War Memorials.

Census

• Transcriptions of the Wirkswirth Area Census covering Cromford for 1841, 1851 and 1881 (other years to follow) are available on John Palmer's Wirksworth site. This site also features Histories of Cromford, from various sources.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Cromford is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.

Description and Travel

• Old Postcard of The Tors Entering Cromford.
  (Contributed by Sheila Rimmington in July 2001)

• Information about, and photographs of Cromford are featured on the Derbyshire UK page on Cromford village in Derbyshire.

• Photograph of a Pumping Station, Cromford, from Peter & Janet Kirk (by the Cromford Canal).

Directories

• A Description of Cromford and Directory for Wirksworth and Cromford, with the villages of Alderwasley, Brassington, Carsington, Hopton, Holloway, Lea and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, 1857, for Cromford by Neil Wilson (on Ann Andrews' site).

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1864) for Cromford by Ann Andrews.
  [NB: Directory covers the counties of "Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutlandshire"]

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Cromford by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

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

History

• Cromford Village in Derbyshire - The History Zone - a very informative and entertaining history of Cromford, including a Time Line contrasting events in Cromford with those in the wider world.

Occupations

• Friends of Cromford Canal - dedicated to restoration of the Canal to a working waterway again.

Societies

• The Arkwright Society, Cromford Mill, Cromford, Derbyshire - History, Projects, Tours, &c.

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