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 Chesterfield Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2525 & 2526 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2757 & 2758 |
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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.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in 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)