Charlesworth

CHARLESWORTH is a township and ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1845 out of Glossop, including Chisworth and Simmondley, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of High Peak civil parish, union and county court district of Glossop, rural deanery of Castleton, archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield. Charlesworth township is one mile from Dinting station, 3 miles south west from Glossop, 13 from Manchester, and 200½ from London, on the borders of Cheshire.

The church of St. John, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, porch, and square tower, is a handsome cruciform building in the Early English style, and was erected in 1849, at a cost of £2,700, raised by subscription. The register dates from the year 1849. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £150 with residence, in the gift of the Crown and bishop of the diocese alternately, and held by the Rev. Goodwin Purcell, of Trinity College, Dublin.

A National school, in connection with the church, has been erected by voluntary contributions, through the exertions of the Rev. Goodwin Purcell. Here are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. Cotton spinning and cotton band making are carried on here. The principal landowner is Lord Howard of Glossop, who is lord of the manor. The soil is clay; subsoil, sandstone. The chief crops are hay. The area is 1,463 acres; rateable value, £4,048; the population of the township in 1871 was 1,185; the population of ecclesiastical district is 2,061; acreage, 3,322; rateable value, £7,663

Post Office Derbyshire Directory 1876