CHELLASTON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church Records

• Marriages at Chellaston, 1570-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in 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]

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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

• 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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