ALVASTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There was a small chapel here in Saxon times.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1855.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
  
  
• Visit the church website for more information.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1614.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• Marriages at Alvaston, 1614-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Melbourne.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Shardlow sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"ALVASTON, a chapelry in the parish of Derby St. Michael, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch in the county of Derby, 3 miles to the S.E. of Derby. It is situated on the river Derwent, near the Midland railway, and the Derby canal goes through the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £116, in the gift of the parishioners. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here: The principal residence is Alvaston House."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Today, Alvaston functions as a suburb of Derby city, on the A6 trunk road only 3 miles from Derbvy city centre. The village has grown considerably in the last 150 years.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Alvaston entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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History

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient chapelry in Derby St. Michael and became a modern Civil Parish in 1884.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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