BLACKWELL by ALFRETON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Blackwell sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1841 | H.O. 107 / 193 |
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2123 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Werburg.
- The church was rebuilt in 1827-28.
- The church was rebuilt again in 1879.
- The church seats 220.
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Church Records
- The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
- A CD containing a transcription of
The Parish Registers of St Werburgh's Church
is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1875.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Blackwell sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
- "A parish and pleasant village, 3½ miles N.E. from Alfreton, and in 1851 had 467 inhabitants. The Church, dedicated to St. Werburgh, is a handsome stone edifice. The living is a vicarage; the Rev. Thomas Leeson Cursham, D.C.L., incumbent." [Ex. Harrison, Harrop & Co.'s Directory & Gazetteer of Derbyshire, 1860]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Blackwell 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 Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.