BRASSINGTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Ashbourne Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2524 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2756 |
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ashbourne Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"BRASSINGTON, a township and village, in the parish of Bradbourn, and in the hundred of Wirksworth, is four miles N.W. from the last named town, and contains about 700 inhabitants, principally in agricultural employment."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Brassington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).