DUFFIELD, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Wiltshire, Mary (and others) - Duffield Firth. Landmark, 2005. ISBN 1-84306-191-0. Added 8 Nov 2005.

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Census

• The parish was the centre of the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• No trace remains of the early Saxon church dedicated to Saint Alkmund.
  
  
• The church was extensively restored in 1847.
  
  
• The church seats 578.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1598.
  
  
• Marriages at Duffield, 1598-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was the centre of the Duffield sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"DUFFIELD is a large and pleasant village, in the populous parish of its name, in the hundred of Appletree: the village is situate on a fine plain, over which the main road passes, leading from Derby to Belper, Matlock, and Sheffield; about four and a half miles north from Derby, and three and a half south from Belper. It has long been esteemed a favourite residence of persons enjoying a respectable competence, who prefer retirement and quiet to the bustle of larger towns."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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Schools

• A grammar school at Duffield was founded in 1565 by William Gilbert.
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999)

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