BARTON-BLOUNT, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Chad.
  
  
• The date of construction is unreported, but the building is classed as an Ancient Monument.
  
  
• Becasue of its small size, Saint Chad's is usually refered to as a chapel and not a church.
  
  
• The chapel was rebuilt in 1714.
  
  
• Saint Chad's Chapel is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The chapel was declared redundant in 1976.
  
  
• The church seats only 60.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558 for all entries.
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has the parish register on microfilm for 1766 through 1973 and the Bishop's Transcript for 1762 through 1853.
  
  
• Also check Dusty Docs for a transcript of the parish register.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel

"BARTON-BLOUNT, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 9 miles to the W. of Derby, its post town. During the civil war in the reign of Charles I. the manor-house was garrisoned for the parliament, and a skirmish took place in the neighbourhood between these forces and the royal troops from Tutbury Castle. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £69, in the patronage of F. Bradshaw, Esq., whose seat is Barton Hall. The parish is in the honour of Tutbury, and Duchy of Lancaster."

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

There is a caravan park near the village.

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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