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CHURCH GRESLEY, Derbyshire

"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]

Directories

• Directory for Church Gresley, Swadlincote, Croxall, Edingale, Catton, Hartshorn and Wooden Box, Lullington, Coton-in-the-Elms, Rosliston, Stapenhill, Stanton & Newhall, and Walton-on-Trent transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Church Gresley by Ann Andrews. Added 2 Feb 2006.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Church Gresley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Genealogy

• Extracts from Trade Directories, Parish Registers, Census, &c. and other miscellaneous information for this area may be found on Brett Payne's South Derbyshire Genealogical Resources. Site is updated regularly.

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