BASLOW, a chapelry in the parish of BAKEWELL,
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 3 miles (S. E.)
from Stoney-Middleton, containing 872 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, endowed
with £800 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire.
The chapel, which is chiefly in the later style of English
architecture, has a tower and low spire at the western
end of the north aisle. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists. Baslow is in the honour of
Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction
of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third
Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. About
half a mile from the village is Stanton-Ford school, for
the education of ten children, endowed with about £15
per annum, and a house and garden for the master.