CHILCOTE, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican Parish Church is dedicated to Saint Matthew.
- The existing church was built in 1842 after the original building was demolished.
- The church walls were encaseded in white sandstone in 1885.
- There is a photograph of the Anglican Church on
GeoGraph.
- The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"CHILCOTE, a chapelry in the parish of Clifton-Campville, in the hundred of Repton, in the county of Derby, 6½ miles S.W. of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The village is situated on a rock, and was rebuilt by the late F. Robertson, Esq. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory* of Clifton Campville, in the diocese of Lichfield, in the patronage of H. J. Pye, Esq."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Directories
- Read the transcription of Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1891 by Ann Andrews.
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Chilcote from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This place was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
- In 1897 this parish was administratively placed in Leicestershire.