Description
Hassop, a village and a township in Bakewell parish, Derbyshire. The village stands at the foot of a lofty hill, adjacent to the Buxton railway, 2 1/2 miles N of Bakewell, and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office under Bakewell; money order office, Great Longstone. Area of township, 1363 acres; population, 110. Hassop Hall is the seat of the Leslies, the lords of the manor, and was garrisoned in 1643 for Charles I. A handsome Roman Catholic chapel, built in 1818, is near the entrance to the hall, and was thoroughly restored in 1886. There is a convent of the Sisters of Peace.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
