BRACKENFIELD, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Chesterfield Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2525 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2757 |
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Church History
- The parish was a Chepelry in Morton until 1844.
- The Anglican parish chapel was dedicated to the Holy Trinity and was disused by 1891.
- A new Holy Trinity Church was built near the village green in 1856.
- The church seats 230.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1845 (for the chapel) and 1857 (for the church).
- The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
- The Free Methodists buyilt a chapel here in 1890.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Chesterfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"BRACKENFIELD, a township in the parish of Morton, hundred of Scarsdale, in the county of Derby, 4 miles to the E. of Matlock. Alfreton is its post town. The Midland railway runs near it. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, worth £52, in the patronage of the Rector of Morton. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity."
[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 Brackenfield entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).