CHURCH GRESLEY, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2268 |
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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.
"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]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Church Gresley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Population
Year Inhabitants 1831 2,543