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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hassop like this:
HASSOP, a village and a township in Bakewell parish, Derby. The village stands at the foot of a lofty hill, adjacent to the Buxton railway, 2 ½ miles N of Bakewell; and has a station, with telegraph, on tlie railway, and a post office under Bakewell. The township's acreage is retnrned with the parish. Real property, £2, 141. Pop., 139. Houses, 24. Hassop Hall is the seat of Col. Leslie; and was garrisoned, in 1643, for Chai.les I. A Roman Catholic Chapel, built in 1818, is near the entrance to the hall.
Hassop is now part of DERBYSHIRE DALES District. Click here for graphs and data of how DERBYSHIRE DALES has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hassop itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hassop, in Derbyshire Dales and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4059
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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