BRIMINGTON, Derbyshire

Cemeteries

• The Brimington Cemetery was created in 1878 on four acres with two mortuary chapels.
  
  
• The cemetery was under the control of the Burial Board of the parish council.
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has a transcript of the memorial inscriptions (undated). their microfilm was made in 1995. They also have the cemetery records for 1878 - 1997.
  
• There is a photograph of one of the chapels in the cemetery at Panoramio.
  

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Census

• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield 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 Michael and All Angels.
  
  
• The ancient church was taken down in 1808 and completely rebuilt with the exception of the tower, previously rebuilt in 1796.
  
  
• The present church was built in 1847.
  
  
• The church seats 550.
  
  
• The church sports its own Web site with more information about the church.
  
  
• A Mission Church was built in Brimington Common in 1875.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1675. Some older records exist as copies of originals.
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has the parish registers for 1813 through 1956 on microfilm.
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1806.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1835.

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"BRIMINGTON is a township in the parish of Chesterfield, about 2 miles N. by E. from that town; it contains a chapel under the establishment (rebuilt in 1808), and a meeting-house for dissenters. The Chesterfield canal passes through the township - which contained, in 1831, 759 inhabitants."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Brimington entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Brimington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Brimington.

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Military Records

• There is a photographs of the War Memorial in the church on the Wikipedia website. It includes some comments from the scuptor.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry of Chesterfield in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in September, 1844.
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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