CARSINGTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne 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 Margaret.
  
  
• There was a church built here in the 12th century.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1648 and thoroughly repaired in 1655.
  
  
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church seats 140.
  
  
• A photograph of this small grey church can be seen at Flickr.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1592 for all entries.
  
  
• Transcripts of the Carsington registers can be found online at the Derbyshire Family History Society.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Wirksworth.
  

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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

"CARSINGTON is a small parish, about two miles and a half W. from Wirksworth, containing a small ancient church, dedicated to St. Margaret; the living is a rectory, of which the dean of Lincoln is the patron. The parish contained, in 1831, 286 inhabitants, who are chiefly supported by agriculture and mining."

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

The parish covered 1,116 acres in 1857 and was mostly dairy farms. The village lies in a sheltered valley six miles north of Belper.

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Directories

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

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Gazetteers

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

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History

• A Roman settlement in the parish now lies beneath Carsington Water.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Carsington by Barbarann Ayars.
  
  
• Carsington Water reservoir was opened by the Queen in May 1992.
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• This parish is in the Derbyshire Dales district.
  

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