DESCRIPTION

The tiny village of Alsop-en-le-Dale was one of the numerous chapelries of Ashbourne.

The small church is of early Norman foundations, the best feature being the doorway.

The registers of baptism, marriage and burial begin in 1701; earlier entries will be found in the parish registers of St. Oswald, Ashbourne. This is mainly a farming area, however, when the High Peak Railway was built near to the village, which had its own station, several inhabitants worked for this railway. The track of the railway now forms the High Peak Trail for walkers and cyclists.

The old Manor House with its stone mullioned widows has many features of 16th century date still remaining. The Alsop family held the manor for seventeen generations until 1688. It then passed through several families. In the second half of the 1800's Henry Allsopp, son of Samuel the Burton Brewer, purchased the Manor House and property around and lived there until his death.

LIST of SURNAMES from the Inscriptions

ABRAHAM	ADAMS	BAGSHAW	BERESFORD	BONSALL
BOWLER	BRADBURY	BROWNSON	BUNTING	CLEWS
COTTERILL	CRITCHLOW	DAKIN	DALE	DAWSON
DERRICOURT	EDENSOR	EDGE	FURNAS	GARLICK
GARNER	GOODWIN	GOULD	GRINDEY	HARDY
JOHNSON	MART	MAY	MILLWARD	MYCOCK
OAKDEN	ODINGSELLO-LEEKE	PHILIPS	PRINCE	REDFERN
RILEY	SALT	SHELDON	SHERRATT	SINGLETON
SMITH	SPENCER	STYLES	SUTTON	TICKLE
TITTERTON	WAGSTAFF	WARING	WILD	WRIGHT

Christian Name Only

John

Margaret

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