DERBY HILLS (ex. par.), Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Melbourne sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2489 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2720 |
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Melbourne sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"DERBY HILLS, an extra-parochial place in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, in the S. division of the county of Derby, 9 miles S. of Derby."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Derby Hills entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient extra-parochial area in Derby county.
- In late 1858, this place was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish.
- This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).