DOVERIDGE (or DOVEBRIDGE), Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Sudbury sub-district of the Uttoxeter Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There was a church here at the time of the 1086 Domesday Survey.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Cuthbert.
  
  
• The church was built around 1300.
  
  
• The church was repaired in 1842.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1866-69.
  
  
• The church seats 350.
  
  
• Legend has it that Robin Hood proposed to (or married) Maid Marian under the Yew Tree in the churchyard.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1574.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials (partially) extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Longford.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1805.
  
  
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1841 but appears to have been abandoned by 1891.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"DOVERIDGE is a small village and parish, in the, hundred of Appletree, 17 miles. W. from Derby, and about 2 S. E. from Uttoxeter (Staffordshire), which is the nearest post town. Doveridge Hall, the seat of Lord Waterpark, is a modern and handsome building, pleasantly situate on an eminence, commanding a view of the town of Uttoxeter, the river Dove, and of the hills which terminate the prospect of the valley. The church, which is dedicated to St. Cuthbert, is a small edifice, chiefly in the early style of English architecture: the living is a vicarage, in the incumbency of the Rev. Henry Stokes. The parish contaned, in 1821, 843 inhabitants, and in 1831, 792, being fewer by eight than was returned at the census taken in 1811."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The pareish covers 4,375 acres and includes the hamlets of West Broughton, Eaton, Sedsall, Ley Hill, Clownholme, Holtwood and Woodhouse. The village has its own website for visitors.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Doveridge 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 Doveridge from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• There is a brief history of Doveridge online.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• You can contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are not staffed to assist you with family history searches.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Uttoxeter Poorlaw Union in Staffordshire.
  

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