Maps relating to Chapel-en-le-Frith

1712 Enclosures plan of  Bowden-Chapel. 

This map is an enclosures plan of  Bowden-Chapel. (Chapel-en-le Frith eastern parish boundary). The original copy of which is held and viewable at Chapel Town Hall and at the national achieves.

The map plans out the Eastern end of the Parish of Chapel in the year 1712 and was part of the current movement of the time (Enclosures Act) to divide the Parishes common land up along the local Registered Land owners to encourage greater efficiency of local agriculture.  

Depending on your registered land holding of the time you were allocated a parcel of common land.

This is a hand copied version of the above Enclosures Plan. I have orientated it to fit the modern mapping style of the top facing north.  By overlapping this traced copy against a modern OS map its remarkable how accrete their mapping skills were at that time.

If you print this map out onto a clear transparency and copy the current modern OS map of the area and enlarge it to match the transparency copy (a few hit and miss copies required first) you can see were the old map sits in today's map.

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You can see the old field lines of the 1712 map still in existence today on the modern map. Note the A6 road which wasn't in place in the 1712 map and the fields were it is now match the 1712 fields which extent over the road and align with the fields across the other-side.

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1847 Chapel Parish Tithe Map

1847 tithe map of chapel parish. This map is interesting in that unlike other tithe maps of parishes which number all fields, dwellings etc and provide ownership in an index stating the lands value based on its farming yield, grade etc. Chapel parish is unique in that due to its some what independent parochial status and link to the Crown and not having an over lord who was the chief land owner it paid less tithes and as such its tithes (taxes) were paid in cash and it was administered by the Parish rate/rent book, to which one copy is held by a local man and one other is now in the depository of the Derbyshire Records office. This copy of the rates book has been transcribed and is featured on this linked website. ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dusk/ These books detailed ownership and the tax each owner paid. The sad thing is the book details field names and while these names are still used in part some have been forgotten.

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 + marks the church.

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Chapel in 1710. Taken from the Britannia mapping of Briton. 

Chapel 1840 one of the first Topographic maps.

1673 map of Derbyshire County

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