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ALFRETON, Derbyshire

"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." [There is further information for Alfreton]

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

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Gazetteers History

Church Records

• For information only - the "Parish Chest" for Alfreton contains no Settlement Certificates. My grateful thanks to Janet Kirk for this information.

• Janice Hargreaves' Derbyshire Marriage Index site formerly at homepage.ntlworld.com/sherwoodoutlaw is now apparently unavailable, but some of the pages may be accessible via an Archived Version of Derbyshire Marriage Index. Note: as these are archived versions some of the links may no longer work, but the original site contained Marriages at Alfreton, 1756-1800 (separate web pages for Brides and Grooms).

Directories

• A Description of Alfreton and Directory for Alfreton, with the hamlet of Swanwick, the chapelry of Riddings, Shirland with Higham and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Alfreton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

History

• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Alfreton by Barbarann Ayars.

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