HOPE, a parish (formerly a market-town) in the
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, comprising
the chapelry of Fairfield, the townships of Fernilee, Grindlow,
Highlow, Hope, and Stoke, the hamlets of Abney,
Aston with Thornton, Bradwell, Brough with Shatton,
Great Hucklow, Nether Padley, Offerton, Thornhill, and
Woodland-Hope, and the liberties of Hazlebadge and
Little Hucklow, and containing, exclusivelyof a portion
of the township of Wardlow, which is in this parish,
4102 inhabitants, of which number, 518 are in the
township of Hope, 6 miles (N. by E.) from Tidswell.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
Lichfield, rated in the king's books at £13. 13. 4., and
endowed with £ 10 per annum private benefaction. The
church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an embattled edifice
in the later style of English architecture, with a tower
supporting a spire, A charity school for ten children is
endowed with about £ 10 per annum, and- a house and
garden for the master. The market, anciently held
here, and renewed by a grant in 1715, was discontinued
about twelve years ago. There are fairs, chiefly for cattle,
on March 28th, May 13th, the day before the second
Wednesday in September, and October 1lth.