Ambergate - where is/was Hill Top?

[morris.merryweather]

An inscription in a 1905 diary, the person wrote their address as 'Hill Top Ambergate'. Does anyone know where this is/was? Thanks.

[jaywit]

A guess based on the geography is either on or close to the A610 the Ripley road.

[trish1120]

Bullbridge Hill, Ambergate??

[hanes teulu]

There are a couple of newspaper reports that refer to "Hill Top, Crich". Do you have a name which might enable us to pinpoint the property in Census returns/on line electoral registers etc?

Looking at "Ambergate" in a 1912 Directory it reads -
"Ambergate - see Alderswayley, p 12; Heage p 295; & see Crich"

[morris.merryweather]

There are a couple of newspaper reports that refer to "Hill Top, Crich". Do you have a name which might enable us to pinpoint the property in Census returns/on line electoral registers etc?

Looking at "Ambergate" in a 1912 Directory it reads -
"Ambergate - see Alderswayley, p 12; Heage p 295; & see Crich"

On the 1901 census their address is given as Heage (no street name). Perhaps Heage and Ambergate were used interchangeably around this time, although a map of 1900 shows both as separate areas.

[hanes teulu]

Kelly's 1912 directory, under Crich, lists a -
Henry Slack, Farmer and Carter, Hill top"

Cannot spot him on the 1911 Census as yet.

The "Address search" function on FindMyPast does not recognise "Ambergate". It does recognise Heage and Crich.

[hanes teulu]

There are a couple of newspaper reports that refer to "Hill Top, Crich". Do you have a name which might enable us to pinpoint the property in Census returns/on line electoral registers etc?

Looking at "Ambergate" in a 1912 Directory it reads -
"Ambergate - see Alderswayley, p 12; Heage p 295; & see Crich"

s on a Census the process is to "walk" the enumerator's route (ie. checking the pages either side) looking for reference points. Most useful reference points are pub names. Else might be prominent addresses eg The Vicarage, Something Hall, Something Farm" etc.


On the 1901 census their address is given as Heage (no street name). Perhaps Heage and Ambergate were used interchangeably around this time, although a map of 1900 shows both as separate areas.

Having found an entry on a Census page the process is to "walk" the enumerator's route (ie. checking the pages either side of that page) looking for reference points. Most useful reference points are Pub names. Else might be prominent addresses eg The Vicarage, Something Hall, Something Farm" etc.

The "Hilltop" I have spotted is nearer Heage than Ambeergate.