YOULGRAVE, a parish comprising the chapelry of Middleton with Smerrill, and the township of Elton, in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH, and the chapelries of Birchover, Stanton, and Winster, the township of Youlgrave, and the hamlet of Gratton, in that of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, and containing 3593 inhabitants, of which number 955 are in the township of Youlgrave, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Bakewell. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £9. 4. 7., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is partly Norman, and partly of later date. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school was erected by subscription, about 1765, in which eight children are taught; in 1824, a residence for the master was added, at the expense of the Duke of Rutland. Youlgrave 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.