BOYLESTONE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Sudbury sub-district of the Uttoexeter 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 John the Baptist.
  
  
• The church was built in the 14th century, but some sources claim it was built in 1700.
  
  
• The church was here in 1644 when a Royalist detachment was captured here.
  
  
• The church tower was added in 1844 (or 1846, depending on your sources).
  
  
• The church chancel was restored in 1887.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  
  
• There are photographs of the church at Pictures of Boylestone.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1734.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1809.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1846.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Sudbury sub-district of the Uttoexeter Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel

"BOYLSTONE, (or Boylestone) a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 7 miles to the S. of Ashbourne, and 4 N. from Sudbury railway station. It is watered by a small stream, a feeder of the river Dove. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £260, in the patronage of Robert Pool, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and has a small tower. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels in the village. There are some small charitable endowments, and a National school was built in 1845 near the church. John Broadhurst, Esq., is lord of the manor."

[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 Boylestone 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.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Uttoxeter Poorlaw Union in Staffordshire.
  

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