ASTON UPON TRENT, 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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• There was a church here at the time of the 1086 Domesday Survey.
  
  
• Most of the present church was built in the 14th century.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1848 and 1863.
  
  
• The church seats 320.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1667.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register baptisms in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1820.
  

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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

"ASTON-UPON-TRENT is a parish and village, in the same hundred as Shardlow, two miles from that place, and about six and a half from Derby. The hall of Aston, a substantial mansion, the seat of Edward Anthony Holden, Esq. is in the village. At one time this place must have been of much more importance than at the present period, for we find that in 1256, the privilege of holding a market and fair was granted to it; both, however, have long been discontinued. The church is dedicated to All Saints, and the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Holden family. The parish (which has no dependent township), contained, in 1831, 620 inhabitants."

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

The parish is close to the border with Leicestershire. Visit the Aston upon Trent community website for a little local color.

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Directories

• A Description of Aston upon Trent has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
  
  
• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Aston upon Trent entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

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

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Military Records

• For a photograph of the Aston-upon-Trent War Memorials and the names on them, see the British War Graves site.
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• In APril, 1968, this Civil Parish was enlarged by 28 acres from the abolition of Chesllaston Civil Parish.

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