CLAY CROSS, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Wombwell, Margaret - I Remember Clay Cross. DCC Cultural & Community Services, 2008. No ISBN. Added 7 Nov 2008.

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Census

• The parish was in the Ashover sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  
  
• The parish is listed as Clay Lane on some census returns.
  
  
• There are good records at Neil Wilson's website on Clay Cross on Rootsweb.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Lawrence's Church North Wingfield also includes Marriages 1852 - 1860 and Burials 1852 - 1891 for Clay Cross.
  
  
• We have a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a pop-up window text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• We also have a partial extract of Parish Register baptisms in a pop-up window text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashover sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"CLAYCROSS, (or Claylane) a township in the parish of North Wingfield, in the hundred of Scarsdale, in the county of Derby, 5 miles S. of Chesterfield, its post town. It is a station on the Midland railway. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £60, to which the Claycross Coal Company make a grant of £50, in the patronage of the Rector of North Wingfield. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was erected by subscription in 1851. It is a handsome stone edifice in the early English style."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Gazetteers

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

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Historical Geography

• Egstow, formerly a parish in its own right was incorporated in the civil parish of Clay Cross in 1935.
  (Ref: The Place-Names of Derbyshire, K. Cameron, Cambridge University Press, 1959)

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Military Records

• Steve Morse provides us with this Roll of Honour from Tupton School.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township in Derbyshire.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• This township was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish in December, 1866, under the name "Clay Lane Civil Parish".
  
  

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Schools

• Michael Spencer provides us with this school admissions lists.

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