BALLIDON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Hartington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• Starting in 1901, the parish was reassigned to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish chapel was dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The chapel is apparently early Norman in origin, probably from the 12th century.
  
  
• The church was refloored and renovated in 1837.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly restored and almost entirely rebuilt in 1882-83.
  
  
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The last service was held on 18 April, 2003. The church is now considered redundant.
  
  
• The church only seats 82.
  

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Church Records

• Search the Bradborne parish registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Hartington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• Starting in 1901, the parish was reassigned to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"BALLIDON, a chapelry in the parish of Bradborne, and hundred of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, 5 miles to the W. of Wirksworth. Ashmore [Ed: sic. Probably intended to read 'Ashbourne'] is its post town. The living is a curacy attached to the vicarage of Bradborne, in the diocese of Lichfield. The chapelry is included in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of the Tutbury court for the recovery of small debts."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township and chapelry in Bradbourne parish in Derbyshire and became a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
• Today's local governance is provided by the Ballidon and Bradbourne Council.
• Today's district governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

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