| 829CE | Limb Brook, Dore forms the boundary between Mercia (conquered by King Ecgbert of Wessex) and Northumbria (ruled by King Eanred). King Ecgbert leads an army to Dore – a meeting place well known to both sides. His opponent, King Eanred, is preoccupied by Danish raids and is unwilling to risk hostilities on two fronts. At Kings Croft, Dore he submits and offers King Ecgbert "obedience and concord and thereupon they separated". Through this treaty King Ecgbert becomes overlord of the English-speaking part of our island, effectively from the English Channel to the Firth of Forth. This authority was not, in the event, permanent but it did herald the unity of the Kingdom of England which took place in 927 under King Æthelstan. |
| 1086 | Dore is in the wapentake (division of a shire) of Scarsdale. The Domesday Book names Dore as part of the land of Roger de Busli (or Bully), the Lord of Hallam. He was believed to have been born near Dieppe, Normandy in around 1038 and died between 1098 and 1100. As William the Conqueror’s tenant-in-chief, the reward of land for his part in the Norman invasion included 174 manors in Nottinghamshire and large parts of the present South Yorkshire. He established his castle at Tickhill. His only son pre-deceased him. His brother Arnaldus also held land in Nottinghamshire, and Arnaldus’ grandson, Richard, founded Roche Abbey near Maltby. Two Dore landowners are mentioned in the Domesday Book - Edwin and Leofwin. Each had two bovates of taxable land (a bovate is usually between 15 and 20 acres). Leofwin’s land which included "land for one plough" seems to have dropped in value from twenty shillings to 64 pence. |
| c1175 | Land is granted by Robert FitzRanulph de Alfreton, the Lord of Edwalton, to establish a house of Premonstratensian canons (a branch of the Augustinian Order also known as Norbertines or, from their dress, as White Canons) at Beauchief. Dore pays tithe to the monks of Beauchief. |
| 1183 | Beauchief Abbey consecrated. |
| c1280 | The Walk Mill (near the site of Dore station) is used by the monks of Beauchief to full (cleanse and thicken) cloth. |
| 1302 | Robert de Middleton, Yeoman of Dore, is prosecuted for an assault on Henry le Forester. |
| 1306 | Hugh le Barker is prosecuted for an assault on Henry le Forester. Robert de Middleton is also fined for his part in the attack. The Barkers came to be Dore’s leading family until the 18th century. They lived at Dore Hall. |
| 1490 | Boys are taught by the monks at Beauchief Abbey. |
| 1536 | Beauchief Abbey is dissolved. |
| 1577 | Robert Stevenson of Unstone bequeaths "one hundred herrings and bread to be distributed to the poor every Friday in Lent". |
| 1616 | Appraisers value the effects of Edward Barker, the Squire of Dore, at £303 (probably around £22,500 in today’s money and excluding land and buildings). |
| 1630 | Dronfield Grammar School founded by Henry Fanshawe and, by charter, the school educated children from Dore until 1972. |
| 1632 | Thomas Stanley comes to Dore’s "chapel-of-ease" as Curate and remains for about four years. |
| 1665-1666 | Thomas Stanley, former Curate of Dore and Rector of Eyam, is hailed as one of the heroes of the Eyam Plague along with William Mompesson, his successor as Rector. |
| 1705 | The Vicar of Dronfield reports, "Dore Chapel hath nothing at all belonging to it". |
| 1711 | Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, is listed as Lord of the Manor of Dore. |
| 1720 | Robert Turie, Curate of Ecclesall, gives the people of Dore £40 to be "laid out in lands" with the accrueing rent to enable six of the poorest children to be taught English. The incumbent of Dore would select the children and appoint the master. Teaching probably took place on the site of the present Old School. Dore becomes a perpetual curacy but is not yet a parish in its own right. |
| 1742 | The Duke of Devonshire acquires the manor of Dore from the Duke of Newcastle. |
| 1790 | Wesleyan Methodists start to meet in Dore and do so until 1843. |
| 1791 | Richard Furness born at Eyam. He later starts work as an apprentice currier in Chesterfield at the age of 14. |
| 1801 | Dore’s population is given as 375. See also 'Dore in the Nineteenth Century - Life in the Community' |
| 1805 | The approximate date of the origin of the tale of Old Betty and her Oatcake [probably apocryphal]. |
| 1809 | The Duke of Devonshire with other landowners applies to enclose areas of common land. The Dore Enclosure Act ("An Act for Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Dronfield in the County of Derby") is passed. The Act dealt with an area of about 5,000 acres. The local survey is done by Mr Fairbanks, the Sheffield surveyor. |
| 1811 | Dore’s population is given as 398. |
| 1812 | Works starts on the new Dore Turnpike (Ecclesall Road South and Hathersage Road). The new road from Banner Cross to Fox House obviates the more difficult stretch of the Buxton Turnpike which ran via Ringinglow Road and Houndkirk Moor. |
| 1816 | Richard Furness marries Frances Ibbotson in Hathersage. |
| 1821 | The present Old School is "erected by subscription". Dore’s population is now 476. Probably the area’s oldest man, George Wainwright, dies in Dore at the age of 107. |
| 1822 | Richard Furness moves to the house attached to the school and receives an £18 per year salary as schoolmaster. The award of lands under the Dore Enclosure Act is executed. The trustees of Dore School are awarded about 20 acres. Robert Thorpe is allotted land at the Bod (Limb Lane), Henry Hancock is allotted land at Stony Ridge and builds a house which is rented by Henry and Jane Peat who establish "T’Besom Shop" there. |
| 1823 | On a visit, the Archdeacon finds Dore Chapel to have cracked and bulging walls and "three frightful wooden pillars down the centre, supporting the roof". It is decided to demolish the building and the site is sold for £33. A bounty of seven shillings is paid by the Constable for a bitch fox. |
| 1826 | By law, unmarried mothers-to-be are removed from their place of residence to the parish to which they belong. Elizabeth Taylor, a single woman living in Dore, is removed to Manchester "by reason of pregnancy" to be provided for by the city’s Overseers of the Poor. |
| 1827 | Richard Furness, the local schoolmaster, designs Dore’s new church which is built at a cost of about £1,000. The Chesterfield coroner is paid five shillings to hold an inquest into the death of Dore stonemason, Thomas Short, who was "killed by the falling-in of his own cellar arch while he was in the act of taking away the centres". |
| 1828 | Pigot’s Commercial Directory of Derbyshire lists Dore as a place of no consideration in the way of trade with the exception of a paper mill. Building work continues on Dore church. |
| 1829 | The new Dore church is consecrated by the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Technically, it remains a chapel-of-ease in Dronfield parish. |
| 1831 | Dore’s population rises to 527. |
| 1835 | The Constable’s Accounts for Dore and Totley show that 51 polecats were caught between 1832 – 1835 inclusive. Around this time Charles Revitt famously mends the church harmonium’s bellows with the garter of a lady chorister. |
| 1840 | Richard Martin becomes the first Vicar of Dore. |
| 1841 | Richard Furness is criticised by school inspectors who find his school in chaos and the children dirty, fighting and squabbling amongst themselves. Dore’s population is now 575. |
| 1843 | Dore becomes a parish in its own right. |
| 1848 | Richard Furness resigns after having been effectively ousted from his job as schoolmaster. He is granted a pension of £15 per year, and school fees are increased to help pay for it. |
| 1849 | Richard Martin, Vicar, leaves to become chaplain of a convict ship moored at Gosport. He is succeeded by John Aldred. |
| 1851 | Dore’s population drops to 574. |
| 1853 | William Broadhead, Secretary of the Saw Grinders’ Union, visits local saw grinder, Elisha Parker. Parker’s horse is hamstrung (crippled by cutting its tendons). |
| 1854 | The "Sheffield Outrages" committed by organised labour against non-union workers affect Dore. Elisha Parker, is shot at and has gunpowder laid at his house. |
| 1857 | Richard Furness dies at Dore and is interred at Eyam Church. |
| 1858 | Richard Furness’ poetical works are published by subscription. |
| 1859 | Elisha Parker is "rattened" (his work is sabotaged) and he receives a letter pseudonymously signed "Tantia Topee" (infamous at the time as one of the leaders of the Indian mutineers who was arrested and hanged in April of this year). |
| 1861 | Dore’s population rises again to 610. Primitive Methodists open their chapel on High Street. |
| 1866 | The Sheffield Filemakers’ strike lasts for sixteen weeks. |
| 1867 | Elisha Parker gives evidence at the Trades Union Commission enquiry into the Sheffield Outrages. The trustees of Dore School receive a government grant to fund the building of an additional room for infants. |
| 1870 | The railway line between Chesterfield and Sheffield opens. Abbey Houses (Beauchief) gets a station but Dore’s is two years late. Ryecroft Mill, used in the 17th century as a lead mill and later as a corn mill, ceases to operate. |
| 1871 | Dore’s population rises again to 660. |
| 1872 | Dore and Totley railway station opens, reached by Dore New Road (Dore Road) which is built at the same time through the Duke of Devonshire’s property from Abbeydale Road to Ashfurlong Lane.The parish authorities widen the old lane from there to the village. |
| 1876 | The Education Act makes schooling compulsory, but it is not yet free. |
| 1878 | Haymaking depletes the numbers of children at Dore School from about 100 to 22. School attendance is also reduced by harvesting, picking, spring cleaning, infectious diseases and adverse weather. St John’s parish is formed from parts of Dore and Norton. Piped water from Redmires begins to reach houses in Dore Road. The Licensed Victuallers’ Asylum is built opposite Dore and Totley railway station. |
| 1881 | Dore’s population is given as 631 with a further 243 souls in Abbeydale. |
| 1882 | Dore schoolmaster Mr Deane resigns because of his inadequate salary. He had also had discipline problems with two girls who refused to "fold their arms" in front of the Vicar. The "Thorough Guide to the Peak District" by M J B Baddeley comments, " The road between Fox House and Hathersage – an important turnpike one – was made almost impassable for carriages by the daily running of a traction engine with two huge trucks from Dronfield to various places in the Derwent valley. That such a gross abuse of the purposes for which highways are constructed should have been permitted for a single week is a disgrace to everybody concerned. However, the slaughter of one boy, the upsetting of the mail-cart, and, lastly, the cruel extinction of two young lives on Easter Monday through a collision between the hideous abomination and a private carriage will, it may be hoped, lead to such an alteration in existing laws as will prevent the safety of the public being jeopardised in this utterly unwarrantable manner. It is inconceivable that such a monstrous deformity should be allowed to grind and snort its way, as a regular institution, through scenes into which the introduction of railways has been loudly decried on aesthetic grounds." |
| 1883 | Eliza Flint is expelled from Dore School after breaking windows, swearing, lying and stealing. |
| 1884 | Building of the Dore and Chinley railway line is authorised after being unsuccessfully opposed by local resident Ebenezer Hall, silversmith and electroplater, of Abbeydale Park (now Abbeydale Hall). |
| 1885 | Mr Cottam of Grimesthorpe starts a horse-bus service from Dore and Totley station to Totley Cross Scythes. |
| 1887 | First of two smallpox outbreaks affecting Dore, at the same time as a serious outbreak in Sheffield. |
| 1888 | Work starts on the construction of Totley Tunnel. |
| 1891 | Railway building is in part responsible for the growth of Dore’s population to 1,646 with an additional 986 souls in Abbeydale. |
| 1892 | The tunnellers of Totley Tunnel meet in the middle after boring through 3 miles and 950 yards (and laying about 30 million bricks). |
| 1893 | Local smallpox epidemic claims the lives of navvies working on railway construction. The Dore and Chinley railway line opens for goods traffic. |
| 1894 | The Dore and Chinley railway line opens for passenger traffic. The Revd John Aldred dies and he is succeeded by Revd W R Gibson. |
| 1896 | Joseph Hancock of Rushley writes his history of Dore. |
| 1897 | The children of Dore and Totley are each presented with a commemorative book by Dore School trustees to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. |
| 1901 | Mr Bone is appointed as headmaster of Dore School where he remains until 1925. The railway navvies have moved on and the local population drops slightly with 1,305 people recorded in Dore and a further 1,058 in Abbeydale. |
| 1907 | Dore Post Office is connected to the telephone network. |
| 1909 | New bells are dedicated at Dore Church. A public telephone is installed at Dore Station. A new sewer scheme is planned for Dore. Dore and Totley children take part in a pageant written by Mrs Milner of Totley Hall which depicted the events of 829. |
| c1910 | Miss Dobbs joins the staff of Dore School. |
| 1912 | An Old Time Country Fair is held in the Vicarage garden. |
| 1914 | Dore Girl Guides founded. |
| 1914-1918 | Dore in the First World War |
| 1915 | A Sheffield Telegraph ramblers’ guide draws attention to Totley Brook Road "where some of our young Sheffield architects have been letting themselves go with much novelty of design". |
| 1917 | There are 129 children on the register at Dore School. |
| 1919 | End of World War 1. Bassetts of Sheffield launch a new product called "Peace Babies", later to be known as "Jelly Babies". |
| 1922 | Dore’s War Memorial is unveiled. |
| 1924 | Dore and Totley become separate parishes. |
| 1925 | Mr Speight takes over as headmaster of Dore School and remains until 1940 when he is promoted. |
| 1926 | The Vicar, Revd W R Gibson, draws attention to "two races" in Dore – the longstanding inhabitants and Sheffield incomers. |
| 1929 | The official opening of Furniss Avenue. Named after Dore's famous schoolmaster, Richard Furness, who used both spellings of his name during his lifetime. |
| 1930 | The Bushey Wood is given to Norton Rural Council by its surveyor, Mr E Sampson. |
| 1931 | The 300 year-old Rushley Cottage is demolished. The road to Fox House is straightened. |
| 1934 | Boundary change by which Dore is transferred from Derbyshire to Yorkshire. |
| 1938 | The last corn is cut at Causeway Head Farm prior to the building of houses. Dore has a Women’s Mouth Organ Band. |
| 1940 | The centre of Sheffield is bombed and 600 lives are lost. |
| 1942 | Dore mine (ganister and coal), operative for over one hundred years, is abandoned. |
| 1943 | RAF practises dam bombing raids on nearby reservoirs. |
| 1945 | Dore School marks victory in Europe. Children get three days’ holiday and free chocolate. Ladybower Reservoir opened by King George VI to meet the growing needs of Sheffield and the East Midlands. |
| 1947 | The "Arctic" winter. 35 Pre-fab houses are erected in Dore. |
| c1950 | Miss Dobbs retires from the staff of Dore School. |
| 1951 | Dore’s population (probably excluding Abbeydale) is given as 2,336. |
| 1953 | New road is constructed at Whirlow Bridge. Mr Wright becomes headmaster of Dore School. |
| 1959 | Dore Methodist Church is modernised, extended and reconsecrated. Well dressing begins. |
| 1962 | Police raid a Sunday football match on the recreation ground. |
| 1964 | Dore Village Society is formed. |
| 1965 | The new school (Dore Primary) opens on Furniss Avenue and Dore School, now Dore Old School, is closed and fully entrusted to the trustees. |
| 1967 | 17th century Rose and Ivy Cottages (next to the Devonshire Arms) are demolished. |
| 1968 | The Commemorative Stone on the common land of the Village Green is erected and unveiled near to the King’s Croft where the Treaty was reputedly signed. |
| 1969 | Dore railway station becomes an unstaffed halt. |
| 1974 | The ecclesiastical parish of Dore is transferred from the Province of Canterbury to York. |
| 1976 | The prefabricated houses are replaced by 64 homes. |
| 1986 | Dore to Door magazine begins publication. It had originally (since 1964) been Dore Village Society's internal newsletter circulated to members only; in 1986 it became the free community magazine of today, distributed free to all households in the Society's area of benefit. |
| 1991 | The Dore ward population figure is given as 19,197. |
| 2000 | Extension and refurbishment to Old School completed. |
| 2001 | Formal opening of refurbished and extended Old School. |
| 2002 | Dore Millennium Play is performed. |