CHURCH GRESLEY, Derbyshire

Census

Census
Year
Piece No.
1851 H.O. 107 / 2011
1861 R.G. 9 / 1962
1891 R.G. 12 / 2198
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Church History

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Description and Travel

"CHURCH GRESLEY is a parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, 13 miles S. from Derby, 6 W. from Ashby-de-la- Zouch, and 5½ S.E. from Burton-upon-Trent - the last-named being the nearest post town. The coal works and potteries of this parish and neighbourhood are rapidly rising im importance, and from discoveries recently made in the mines hereabout, highly beneficial results are anticipated. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Sir Roger Gresley, Bart. whose remote ancestor founded a priory of canons of the order of St. Augustine, in the reign of Henry I, and dedicated it to St. Mary and St. George. The parish contained, at the last census, 2,543 inhabitants, and the township 671 of that number."

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

The parish covers about 5,510 acres and abuts the Leicestershire border.

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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History

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Military Records

The War Memorial dedication is pictured at the Roll of Honour site. Names have not yet been transcribed.

A more recent view of he War Memorial is at Geograph.

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Politics and Government

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Population

     Year  Inhabitants
1831 2,543
1851 3,300
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