Description
Chelmorton, a township and ecclesiastical parish in Derbyshire, near the Buxton railway, 4 miles ESE of Buxton, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Buxton. The parish includes the township and manor of Flagg. Acreage of township, 2028; population, 269; of ecclesiastical parish, 445. A barrow 240 feet in circuit was opened here in 1782. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; value, £140 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Bakewell. The church is old, with traces of Saxon and Norman work, and has a fine spire, and was restored and reopened in 1874. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
