BEIGHTON, Derbyshire
Cemeteries
- In addition to the churchyard, there is a cemetery on School Rd.
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Census
- The parish was in the Aston sub-district of the Rotherham Registration District up until mid-1895.
- In a July 1895 district re-organization, this parish was transferred to the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
- The church was reputedly built in the 11th century.
- The church is on Church Lane, but the burial ground is on School Road.
- The church was restored in 1868.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1653 and is in good condition.
- The church register is deposited at the Sheffield Archives and are on fiche at the Eckington Library.
- Monument Inscriptions from the graveyard have been recorded and are on deposit at the Sheffield Archives (as of 2003).
- The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
- The Independentsts (United Free Church) built a small chapel here which was later demolished.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a small chapel here in 1849 called "The Reform Chapel". This building was later demolished.
- A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1891.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Aston sub-district of the Rotherham Registration District up until mid-1895.
- In a July 1895 district re-organization, this parish was transferred to the Eckington sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"BEIGHTON, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, in the county of Derby, 7 miles to the S.E. of Sheffield, its post town, and 10 N.E. of Chesterfield. The Midland, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railways pass near the village, and have stations at Eckington and Woodhouse Mill. The approach to the village from Eckington is through a massive stone cutting."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
The parish cover almost 3,000 acres and is bordered by Yorkshire on the east and north. The Chesterfield Canal cuts through the north-east portion of the parish. Birley, Hackenthorpe and Sothal (or Southal) Waterthorpe are hamlets in this parish.
The village was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book. In 1967 the city of Sheffield expanded its boundaries to include this parish within its urban borders. So the parish is now, technically, in Yorkshire.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Beighton entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Beighton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Historical Geography
- "Includes Birley, Hackenthorpe and Frecheville. Now in City of Sheffield and
since 1974 in Sheffield diocese."
(Ref: Derbyshire Record Office: Catalogue of Parish Registers)
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1800.
- As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Rotherham, Yorkshire, Poorlaw Union.
- In a July 1895 district re-organization, this parish was transferred of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.