CURBAR is a township and small village, formed into a parish in 1869, from that of Baslow St. Anne; it includes the townships of Calver and Froggatt, and is 5 miles north-east from Bakewell and 3 from Grindleford station, on the Dore and Chinley section of the Midland railway, in the Western division of the county, High Peak hundred, Bakewell union, petty sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Eyam, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of All Saints, built in 1868, is a small edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south porch, and a small western turret containing 1 bell. There are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £226, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Baslow St. Anne, and held since 1870 by the Rev. Thomas Fosbrooke Salt B.A. of Oriel College, Oxford: the vicarage is on the hillside immediately above the church. Here is a Reformed Wesleyan chapel. Hulme Cliff College is an institution in connection with the “Regions Beyond” Missionary Union; about 30 young men here receive one year’s training, and are afterwards transferred for two years at Harley House, Bow road, London E, before entering on missionary work. The Duke of Rutland K.G., G.C.B., P.C. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The land consists of grazing and moor. The soil is loamy, with a considerable mixture of gritstone; subsoil, sand.

* Including 10 of water

+ Including 10 of water

++ Including 7 of water

National Schools, with master’s house near church, & close to Calver bridge over the Derwent: erected in 1871 for 90 boys & girls, & 48 infants; average attendance, 107 boys, girls & infants.