DRAYCOTT, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Chad (in Wilne).
  
  
• Saint Mary's is a mission church on Victoria Road to Saint Chad's, established in 1928.
  
  
• Saint Mary's does not appear to have a churchyard.
  

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Church Records

• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a large chapel here in 1830 to replace an earlier smaller chapel from 1800.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"DRAYCOTT is a village, in the joint liberty of Draycott and Wilne, in the parish of Sawley, about seven miles S.E. front Derby. A manufactory for spinning cotton gives employment to many of the inhabitants, but the majority are employed in agriculture. The number of persons in the liberty, in the year 1831, was 1,074."

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

The River Derwent forms the southwest boundary of the parish. The A6005 arterial road passes through the heart of the village. The railway runs just north of the village, but passenger service ended in 1966, so all you can do is wave at the village as the train rumbles through.

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Directories

• A Description of Draycott has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
  
  
• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Draycott entry under Wilne 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 Draycott from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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