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CLAY CROSS, Derbyshire

"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]

Bibliography Church Records Description and Travel Gazetteers

Early 20thC Map Click to view larger area.

Genealogy History Historical Geography

Bibliography

• Wombwell, Margaret - I Remember Clay Cross. DCC Cultural & Community Services, 2008.
  Read more in this Review of ‘I Remember Clay Cross’. Added 7 Nov 2008.

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.

Description and Travel

• Jon Rouse's Clay Cross - part of his North East Derbyshire pages. Includes information on St Bartholomew's Church, and an 1870 map of the area.

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

• Genealogy and Local History of Clay Cross - a site created by Neil Wilson featuring his own home town. It contains selected census transcriptions, trade directory and MI details, with some old photos and local history.

History

• Clay Cross, a Brief History, information provided by John Mills on his Bygone Days In Ashover site. See also his photograph of the Cross from which Clay Cross derived its name.

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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