ALFRETON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was the centre of the Alfreton sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2514 thru 2516 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2748 & 2749 |
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Church Records
- For information only - the "Parish Chest" for Alfreton contains no Settlement Certificates. My grateful thanks to Janet Kirk for this information.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was the centre of the Alfreton sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"ALFRETON is a market town, and with Alfreton-outseats forms a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale; 141 miles from London, 51 S.E. from Manchester, 14 N. from Derby, 10 S. from Chesterfield, and 7 N. by E. from Belper. The town, which possesses no pretensions to uniformity in its arrangement, or beauty in its buildings, is seated upon a small eminence."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Alfreton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Alfreton by Barbarann Ayars.