CARSINGTON, 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
"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]
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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
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Carsington by Barbarann Ayars.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).