Description
Calver, a township in Curbar parish, Derbyshire, on the river Derwent, 4 miles N by E of Bakewell. It has a post and money order office under Sheffield; telegraph office, Baslow. Acreage, 775 ; population, 371. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The inhabitants are chiefly lime-burners and cotton-spinners, and there are extensive cotton-mills.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
