Description
Birchover, a township and small village in the parish of Stanton-in-Peak, Derbyshire, 1 mile N of Winster, and 2 1/2 miles from Darley Dale station on the M.R. Post town, Winster. Area of township, 762 acres; population, 76. There is a cave near here containing a carved crucifix, formerly used as a hermitage, and a subterranean passage 90 feet long under Row Tor; and also a rocking stone of about 40 tons near the village.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
