CHADDESDEN, Derbyshire

Cemeteries

• The Chaddesden Cemetery was built in 1855 with two mortuary chapels.
  
  
• This cemetery is also known as the Nottingham Road Cemetery. The cemetery is actually on both sides of the road.
  
  
• The Chaddesden Historical Group has a fine history of the cemetery at Nottingham Road Cemetery.
  
  
• There is a pleasant photo of a quiet section of the cemetery on the Geograph website.

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Census

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt circa 1357.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1718 for all entries.
  
  
• Marriages at Chaddesden, 1718-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1838.
  
  
• Saint Philip's Church on Taddington Road was opened by HM The Queen in 1957.
  
  
• The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Alban's is on Roe Farm Lane. Catholics used to hold mass in a building called "The Hut", installed in 1948. The new church opened in June, 1955.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"CHADDESDEN is a parish (having no dependent township), in the hundred of Appletree but locally situate in that of Morleston and Litchurch, two miles and a half east from Derby. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is of considerable antiquity, having a stone stall in its chancel; the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Sir Robert Wilmot. The Derby canal passes through the parish,- which contained, at the last census (1831), 469 inhabitants, for being fewer, by thirty-three, than were returned for it in 1801."

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

Chaddesden is functiuoanlly a suburb on the north-east side of Derby city. Locals refer to the village as "Chad". Photographs around the village can be found at the Pictures of Old Derby site.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Chaddesden 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 Chaddesden from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Maps

• There is a 1938 map of Chaddesden on the Flickr website.

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Military Records

• Photographs of the Chaddesden War Memorial and the names on it are on the Chaddesden website. Click on the photos to enlarge the images.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1782.
  
  
• In 1891 the parish maintained six almshouses for the poor. All that remains today is a mound where they stood.
  

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