HARTINGTON, a parish in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH,
county of DERBY, 9 miles (S. W.) from Bakewell,
comprising the townships called Town Quarter,
Middle Quarter with Earl-Sterndale, Nether Quarter,
and Upper Quarter, and containing 2218 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Dean's court for the manor of Hartington,
rated in the king's books at £10, endowed with
£ 400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Duke of Devonshire. The church, dedicated to St. Giles,
is an ancient cruciform structure. There is a chapel of
ease at Earl-Sterndale, in this parish. Here is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A charity school is
supported by subscription. Hartington had anciently a
market and a fair, both of which have been long disused,
but fairs are held at Newhaven, for cattle, sheep, and
hardware, on the 2nd Tuesday in September and October
30th; the latter is also a great pleasure fair. There
are lead mines in the parish. Hartington gives the
title of marquis to the family of Cavendish, Dukes of
Devonshire.