DESCRIPTION

The village of Monyash, one of the gateways to Lathkill Dale, lies 5 miles west of Bakewell. The houses are built mainly of limestone and there is a large pond at the centre of the village and a village green on which stands the ancient market cross. Monyash was once a busy market "town" and it was at the village green where the market was held. This was also a thriving lead-mining area with its own barmote court held in the 17th century inn "The Bull's Head" which still stands.

Monyash was formerly a chapelry of Bakewell, but has an ancient church which was restored, except for the porch, in 1887. Cox, in his churches of Derbyshire states that the font cover is inscribed, "W.B.R.N. 1733", but this inscription cannot now be found. Surviving registers, dating from 1754 for baptisms and burials and from 1813 for marriages are deposited at the County Record Office and are available there on film. The Bishops' Transcripts, however, date from 1672 and can be seen at the Record Office at Lichfield.

LIST of SURNAMES from the Inscriptions

ALLCOCK	ALLSOP	ARDERN	ASHMORE	BACON
BAGSHAW	BAILEY	BAINES	BALL	BARB(E)OR
BARNETT	BATEMAN	BELFIELD	BENNET	BERRY
BIRDS	BLACKBURN	BLACKWELL	BOAM	BONSALL
BOWER	BRADBURY	BRAMWELL	BRASSINGTON	BRIDDON
BROADHURST	BROCKLEHURST	BUNTING	BUXTON	CAPEL
CHAPMAN	CHENEY	CLARK	COOPER	COPESTAKE
CRITCHLOW	CROWDER	CURE	DALE	DICKEN
DUNN	DUTTON	DYSON	ENGLISH	FEATHERSTONE
FINNEY	FLINT	FORD	FOTHERBY	FROST
GERRARD	GIBBS	GILMAN	GOODWIN	GRAHAM
GRANT	HADFIELD	HALLIDAY	HALLOWS	HAMMER
HANDLEY	HARRISON	HAWLEY	HAYTO	HEATHCOTE
HIBBERT	HILDACE	HOLMES	HOUSLEY	HULLY
JESSOP	JOHNSON	JONES	KENTISH	KERTON
KNOX	LINTON	LOMAS	MARSDEN	MATHER
MAY(S)	MELLAND	MELLOR	MILLINGTON	MILNES
MORGAN	MOUNTNEY	MYCOCK	NASH	NAYLOR
NEEDHAM	NEWTON	NORTON	OLDFIELD	PAGE
PALFREYMAN	PARKIN	PEACH	PERCIVAL	PETT
PLATTS	POUNTLEY	PRINCE	RATLEFF	REES
REYNOLDS	ROBINSON	RODES	ROOME	RUSHTON
RYLANDS	SCOTT	SHAW	SHELDON	SHIPLEY
SLACK	SMITH	SPENCER	SYBRAY	TABB
TRUMAN	WAGSTAFF	WALTON	WARNER	WATSON
WAY	WEBSTER	WHARTE---	WHEATLEY	WHEELDON
WHILTON	WHITE	WHTWORTH	WILCOCKSON	WILSON
WILSON	WOOD	WOODALL	WOODRUFF	WOOLLEY

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