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Bonsall History Project - References & Resources

Books held by Bonsall History Society members
Catalogued Sources at the Local History Library - a variety of general resources including books, local government reports, historical and tourist information including;
House sales - catalogues dating from 1981
Maps - Ordnance Survey sheets from 1900 to 1970
Articles - from the local and national press, historical and archaeological society journals
Domesday Sources - The Domesday Book and Derbyshire

horsegin3 (36K) 'Glossary of Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms' by J.H. Rieuwerts
The Society has been given 2 copies of this book explaining over 1250 words and terms used by the lead miners. The author was one of the founders of the Peak District Mines Historical Society and has been researching the history of Derbyshire lead mining for over 45 years. Copies of the book are held by Peter Fellows & John March.
Illustration from the book's jacket, showing a horse-gin on Cromford Moor Mine in the early 19th century
Teacher's progress register and journal 1920-21 Miss Needham's 'Progress Register and Class Teacher's Journal' for Bonsall Girls' School July 1920 to March 1921. Contact Christine Brimble to see the journal.

Catalogued Sources at the Local History Library

Register of Electors of the County of Derby (1832-48)
016.94251 Bibliograpy of Derbyshire, people, places and subjects
252(file) Marsh, J., The Universal Establishment of the Kingdom of Christ, a sermon preached in the Parish of Bonsall (1828)
331.3822 Children's Employment Commission: First Report of the Commission of Mines, vol.6, pp.206 and 226-7, vol.8, pp.260 and 363
333.3(file) An act for dividing and inclosing commons or pieces of waste ground in the parishes of, Bonsall, Wirksworth and Matlock
338.94251 Derbyshire Times Industrial Review 1985, p.7
360.94251 Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire concerning charities and education, pp.858-864
362.6 Brittain, G.C., Caring for the Elderly in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Herbert Lodge, 1989)
370.94251(file) Committee of the Council on Education (1841-42), Parliamentary Papers 1842, vol. XXXIII, Report by the Rev.Allen on the state of several schools in the County of Derby.
372.94251(OS) OFSTED Report (July 10-13, 2000)
383.494251(OS) Wilson, H., Postal History of Matlock and District (1982)
397 Strange, D., Born on Straw: a Romany biography (1968)
551.552 (file) Derby Mercury May 12th, 1811, Tornado
554.251 Dunham, K.C., Geological Survey of Great Britain: England and Wales. Wartime pamphlet 46 – Barium minerals in England and Wales. (Photocopy)
609 Trinder, B.,The Making of the Derbyshire Landscape (1982)
622.344 Slack, R., Lead Miners' heyday:the great days of mining in Wirksworth and the Low Peak of Derbyshire (2000)
633.942 (OS) 1801 Acreage Returns, p.38
647.94 Accommodation in the Derbyshire Dales (1993)
647.94 Merrill, J., Derbyshire Inns (1983)
669.942 Blick., C., Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain, BC2000 to AD 1500 (1991)
711.4(OS) DDC, Matlock Local Plan, April 1987
720.942 Pevsner, N., Derbyshire, p.65
720.94251 Urban District of Matlock (1972)
726.3 (file) Addison, W., Local Styles of the English Parish Church (1982)
726.5 Betjeman, J., Guide to English Parish Churches (1993)
726.5 Brown, R,J., The English Parish Church (1998)
726.51B (file) Arkwright Local History Trail No.5 (1971)
728.6 Armstrong, J.R., Traditional Buildings (1979)
786.62 Tomkins, R., Pipe Organs in Churches and Chapels of the Derbyshire Derwent (1995)
913.425I Marsden,B., The burial mounds of Derbyshire (1977)(Os)
913.425I(OS) Hart C.R., The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey to AD 1500 (Chesterfield, 1981)
914.2 Wright G., The Stone Villages of Britain (1985)
914.251 Bate, K., The Many Dales of Derbyshire (1998)
914.251 Bates, T., Discovering Derbyshire's White Peak (2000)
914.251 Bunting, J., Peakland AbeCedary (1993)
914.251 Dengate, R., The Peak Pocket Book – a photographic journey Through the Peak District (useful for industry)
914.251 The High Peak to Sherwood – T.Tudor (1926), p.274
914.251 Derbyshire Guide (1980), p.65
914.251 The Derbyshire Village Book, 1991
914.251 Wilgoose, C., Pub Walks in Derbyshire (1994)
914.251BON The Unveiling of the Bonsall War Memorial, 1921
914.251BON(OS) Bonsall and Matlock – Sale particulars : valuable freehold and copyhold estates to be sold by auction – 8/9/1843
914.251M Charlotte Farnsworth, Memories of Bonsall (1949)
914.251W R.Hackett, Wirksworth and five miles around (1863), pp.91-99
914.2513 The Matlocks – Street Plans
929.3 Dr William's Library - Register of Nonconformist Births - (Derbyshire extracts)
940.53161 Jones, Audrey, Farewell Manchester: the story of the 1939 evacuation, p.71
942.51WIR Eardley, Dennis, Around Wirksworth (1998)
942.51B (file) The Parish Church of Bonsall
942.51BON Bonsall Map Project –The Village Map, 1997
942.51BON Memorial Inscriptions of the Baptist Church, the War Memorial in the Market Place and inscriptions on two wells.
942.51BON(file) Ward, D., 'Counter claims: Bonsall's village store', The Guardian, 6/8/97
942.51BON (file) The Barley Mow – printout of website information
942.51BON Bonsall : a portrait of the village and its church (1993)
914.251BON Sale particulars: valuable freehold and copyhold estates to be sold by auction – Sept.8th 1845 (Os)
942.51BON Lindup, S., A Study of Core families in Bonsall (1992) (Os)
914.2511 McMeeken, I., A Companion to Peak Villages and Beyond
914.251M Matlock Mercury Review, 15.5.81, p.8
942.511 C.P.Heaney, The Development of the Peak District Village and the influence of Lead Mining
942.51 H.Moore, The Stranger's Guide (1837)
942.51 Pocket topography and gazeteer – J.Pigot and Co.
942.51 (OS) Turbutt, G., A History of Derbyshire (1999)
942.51MAT Around Matlock in old photographs – D.A.Barton (1993)
942.51MAT Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Matlock) Act, 1939 (Water Supply)
942.51M Thwaites, W., The Visitor's Guide to Matlock (1860)
942.51 'Holders of the Manor of Bonsall, 1086-1633 ' and 'The Parishes of Fenny Bentley and Bonsall', in Tilley J., Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire (Os)
942.51 Woolley, W., History of Derbyshire
942.51 Transformation of a Valley (Bonsall Brook) B. Cooper (1983)

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House Sales (Boxfile)

S193 Sale Catalogue – Park House (c.1981)

S194 Sale Catalogue – Willow Cottage (1981)

S195 Sale Catalogue – The Old Mill Cottage (c.1981)

S196 Sale Catalogue – The Old Antique Shop (c.1981)

S393 Sale Catalogue – Homestead, Slaley (1982)

S397 Sale Catalogue – Avebury, 29 Church St. (1983)

S419 Sale Catalogue – Marl Cottage (1982)

S589 Sale Catalogue – Loneacre Cottage (1982)

S776 Sale Catalogue – The Fountain (1983)

S933 Sale Catalogue – Tearsall Farm (1984)

S1154 Sale Catalogue – 21 Yeoman St. (1986)

S1182 Sale Catalogue – The Homestead (1986)

S1219 Sale Catalogue – The Gables (1986)

S1238 Sale Catalogue – Bankside Cottage (1986)

S1380 Sale Catalogue – The Barley Mow (1987)

S1705 Sale Catalogue – The New House (1989)

S1940 Sale Catalogue – The Old Queen's Head (1995)

S1972 Sale Catalogue – 11 Church St.

S2126 Sale Catalogue – King's Lodge (1976)

S2238 Sale Catalogue – 1 Study Drive (1991)

S2853 Sale Catalogue – Brightgate Farm (1994)

S2871 Sale Catalogue – Sycamore Cottage (1994)

S2899 Sale Catalogue – 32 Yeoman St. (1994)

S3176 Sale Catalogue – 73 High St. (1995)

S3206 Sale Catalogue - Herbert Lodge (1995)

S3250 Sale Catalogue – Cascades (1995)

S3536 Sale Catalogue – Glebe House (1996)

S3545 Sale Catalogue – 1 Abbey House (1997)

S3561 Sale Catalogue - Millbrook Cottage (1997)

S3757 Sale Catalogue – Yeoman Cottage (1998)

S4019 Sale Catalogue – Quaintways Cottage (1999)

S4087 Sale Catalogue – The Dower House (1999)

S5865 Sale Catalogue – 5 Greenhill (1984)

S5920 Sale Catalogue – Town Head Farmhouse (1984)

S7685 Sale Catalogue – The Barn (1989)


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Maps

OS Derbyshire Sheet XXXIV NW – 1900
OS SK2658-2758 – 1970
OS Derbyshire Sheet no.25 – 1955
OS SK 2657-2757 – 1969
OS SK 2858-2958 – 1969
OS SK2659-2759 – 1968
OS SK 2857and 2957 – 1969
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Articles

Barnatt, J., and Rieuwerts, J., The Upper Nestus Pipes: an ancient lead mine in the Peak District of Derbyshire, in Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society(BPDMHS), vol.13, no.5, (Summer 1998), pp.51-64.

Barnatt, J., Prehistoric and Roman mining in the Peak District: present knowledge and future research, BPDMHS, vol.14, no.2 (Winter1999), pp.19-29.

Beswick, P., and Merrills, D., L.H.Butchers survey of early settlements and field of the Southern Pennines, Transactions of the Hunter Archaeoligical Society, vol.12, 1983.

Bonsall: a portrait of a village and its church, Peak Advertiser (PA), 27.3.00, p.5.

Bonsall village design, P A, 25.1.98, p.1.

Bonsall, Community Fayre, no.34, (Christmas 1988), pp.2 and 5.

Bonsall School Activity Club, Community Fayre, January 1985.

Brossler, A., A survey of surface features at Fools Venture Mine, Bonsall Leys, BPDMHS, vol.13, no.5,(Summer1998), pp.65-71.

Bunting, J., Bonsalls lady bountiful, P A, 6.5.98, p.3.

Bunting, J., Bonsall in a whirl, P A, 18/11/96, p.7.

Buntings of Bonsall, in Bunting Society — Gone a Hunting, no.12,

Autumn/Winter 1995.

Bunting, J., Bonsall Charm, P A, 16.12.96, p.23.

Bunting, J., Church of St. James, Bonsall, P A, 12/2/90, p.7 and 22/2/99, p.15.

Bunting, J., Tangled Tracks on Bonsall Moor, P A, 23/10/89 and 21/4/97.

Bunting, J., Bonsalls Charm, P A, 20.3.89.

Bunting, J., New Year Customs, P A, 14/1/00, pp 1 and 5.

Bunting, J., Licensed for Spirits — ghosts at Peak District hostelries, P A, 23/12/91.

The Buntings of Bonsall get complicated in Cromford, Bunting Society Gone-a-Hunting, Autumn/Winter 1998, pp.7-9. (Lead Mining)

Chandler, P., Pounder Lane Cave, Bonsall, Derbyshire Caving Association Newsletter(DCAN), no.69, (February 1989) and no.32, June 1977 p.1.

Chandler, P., Clatterway Level and Sough, Bonsall, DCAN, no.68 (Oct.88).

Christian, Roy, The Village of Bonsall, Derbyshire Life and Countryside (DLAC), vol.45, no.11, (November 1980), pp.44-46.

Christian, Roy, Slaley Hall, DLAC, vol.32, no.9 (Sept.1967), pp.34-37.

Derbyshire Folk: Bert remembers, Peak Advertiser, 27.11.95, pp.3 and 5.

Firms touch of glass, Derbyshire Dales Herald and Post, 11/11/92.

Flindall, R., The bullring at Bonsall, in DLAC, vol.50, no.1, (January1985), p.42.

A good year reviewed in local schools, Community Fayre, 92, Summer 97.

Gregory and Tune, Ore buddles at Snake Mine, Hopton and at Bonsall Leys, BPDMHS, vol.3, part 4, (December 1967), pp.253-5.

Grundy, D., Visit to Smedleyland, (Chapels), Heritage, vol.4, no.2, (October 1993)

Hurt, L., A survey of Ball Eye Mines, Bonsall, BPDMHS, vol.4, no.4, (October 1970), pp.289-305.

Henstock, Adrian, Towd mon wor from Bonser: the origins of the medieval miners effigy in Wirksworth, BPDMHS, vol.14, no.2, Winter 1999, pp.69-9

Jewitt, Llewellyn, Notice of a brooch of penannular form, found in Derbyshire, The Reliquary, (1863-4), vol.4, pp.65-74.

Knight, J., Putting Bonsall on the map, Matlock and Peak Express (MPE), 17/7/97.

A lifetime of adventure, Peak Advertiser, 9.9.96, p.13.

List of copyholders, 1620, The Reliquary, vol.12, (1871-2), pp.126 and 190.

Makepeace, G.A., Romano-British rural settlements in the Peak District and N.E. Staffordshire, DAJ, vol.118 (1998), pp.95-138.

Missing links of Herbert Lodge, Dales Echo, 5/5/99, p.5.

Nearly Lost Kings Head, Bonsall, Derbyshire Post, 24/6/92, p.11.

On your marks - Bonsall Hen Races, MPE, 11/9/97.

Paulson, E., Local Tales, Peak Advertiser, 14.9.87.

Page, W., William and Elizabeth Craggs school, Victorian County History of the County of Derby (VCHD), vol.2, p.275.

Palmer, M., Industrial Archaeology: a thematic or a period discipline?, Antiquity, vol.64, no.243 (June 1990). (Lead Mining)

Protecting our heritage, BakewellTimes, 8/11/95, p.5.

Rickards, A., Another first for Bonsall, Community Fayre, 97, Easter 1998.

Slack R., The Later Gells and the decline of the lead trade, BPDMHS, vol.14, No.2, Winter 1999, pp.9-14.

Slack, R., Sir John Gell and the Derbyshire lead industry during the Civil War, 1642-46, BPDMHS, vol.13, no.3, Summer1997.

Spotlight on Via Gellia Mills, Derbyshire Dales Herald and Post, 18/11/92.

21st century halls for England, Round Robin, 98/2 June, pp .4-5 and 7.

A walk around Bonsall, Peak Advertiser, 8.5.89, p.10.

Willies, L., Cupola Lead smelting sites in Derbyshire, BPDMHS, vol.4, pt.1 (March 1969), pp.97-115.

Wood, Miriam, A letter to Madam Turner from Edmnd Evans, Derbyshire Miscellany (DM), vol.8, part 3, (Spring 1978).

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Domesday Sources

Bates, D., Bibliography of the Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1986), pp.53-55.
942.51LIS Morgan, P., (ed.), Domesday, Derbyshire, (Chichester: Phillimore, 1978), pp.1, 12 and 272b,c.
942(OS) Bawlden, William (ed.), Dom boc: a translation of the record called Domesday. Pp.287-328.
942 Darby and Maxwell (eds.), The Domesday Geography of Northern England, (1962), Chap.V.
942.51 Jewitt, L., Domesday Book (the part relating to Derbyshire (1871)
962.21 Morgan, P., Domesday Book and Local Historians (1994).
942.51 Roffe, P., The Derbyshire Domesday (1986).
942.51 Roffe, P., An introduction to the Derbyshire Domesday (1991)
942 Ross, A., The Domesday Project (1987).
942(file) Sawyer, P.H., Medieval Settlement (1977) — photocopies.
942.51(OS) Turbutt, G., A History of Derbyshire (vol 2)
942.51 eatman, J.P., The Feudal History of the County of Derby, Section 1, pp.1-88.
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Articles

Albery, C.,'Mapping out a medieval mystery', Derbyshire Now,(Sept.1995) pp.28-30.

Bartholomew, J.,'Domesday map of Derbyshire', The Victorian History of the County of Derby (VHCD), vol.1 (1905), pp326-7.

Bunting, J.,'Turn again, Whittington', Reflections (Dec.1996).

Hallam E.M.,'The Domesday Book: when and why its was made, the latest research', Family History Monthly, no.66 (Mar.2001), pp.30-34.

Postles, D.,'The Borders of Domesday Derbyshire', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal (DAJ), vol.106 (1986).

Roffe, D.,'The Origins of Derbyshire', DAJ, vol.106 (1986).

Stenton, Frank,'Introduction to the Derbyshire Domesday', VHCD, vol.1 (1905), pp.293-353.

Watson, A.F.,'The Manors of Bakewell and Ashford and the Domesday Book', Bakewell Miscellany (Jan.1976), pp.6-17.

Heath, J.E.,'Domesday waste and Derbyshire', Derbyshire Miscellany Vol.11, pt.3 (Sprting 1987) pp.67-8.

Also:

Davis, J.,' The etymology of some Derbyshire Place-names', Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeology and Natural History Society (JDANHS), 2 (1880) pp.37-71.

Barber, H.,'Etymologies of Derbyshire place-names', JDANHS, 19 (1897) pp.52-79.

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