CHELLASTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Shardlow 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 is dedicated to Saint Peter.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1875.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  
  
• You can find a photograph of the church at the Chellaston Parish Page along with links to useful records.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1755 but earlier portions do exist.
  
  
• Marriages at Chellaston, 1570-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1875.
  
  
• The Baptists had a chapel on Derby Road by 1891 but that fell into disuse in the 20th century.
  
  
• The Catholic Church of Saint Ralph Sherwin in Chellaston was built around 1970.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"CHELLASTON is an inconsiderable parish, in the same hundred as Melbourn, 3½ miles N. from that village, and 4½ S.E. by S. from Derby. The places of worship are, the parish church, dedicated to St. Peter, and a chapel for Wesleyan methodists. The living of Chellaston is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Bishop of Carlisle. Population, 352."

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

Chellaston is currently considered a suburb of the city of Derby, lying 5 miles south of the city centre and is the couthern-most part of the city. You can read more about the village at the Discover Derby site.

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Directories

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

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History

• The oral tradition still holds that Robin Hood was born in this parish, but there is no corroborative proof of that.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chellaston by Barbarann Ayars.

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Politics and Government

• This place was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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