CROXALL, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Tamworth sub-district of the Tamworth Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2209 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
- The church was thoroughly restored around 1851.
- The church seats 150.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1588 for all entries and is in good condition.
- The National Archives holds a Tithe Map of Croxall township dated 1843. You would have to visit the Archives to see the map.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Tamworth sub-district of the Tamworth Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"CROXALL is a parish, partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, county of Derby, and partly in the hundred of Offlow, county of Stafford, 8 miles S.W. by S. from Burton- upon-Trent. The river Meuse flows through the parish, and the Tame touches upon its boundary. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist: the living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the crown. Population of the parish, with Catton township and part of Edingale, 263."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
The parish inlcudes the townships of Croxall and Catton and lies 116 miles north of the city of London.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Croxall entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Croxall from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- The Saxons reputedly once had a fortified position on a tumulus near the church. I could find no evidence of archaeological digs/
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish on the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
- This parish was partly in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
- In 1895, the entire parish was allocated to Staffordshire for civil administration.
- In April, 1934, the Civil Parish was abolished and all the land amalgamated into Edingale Civil Parish (still in Staffordshire).