ECKINGTON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church Records

• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"ECKINGTON is a populous village and township, in the parish of its name, and hundred of Scarsdale; the village is situate seven miles N.E. from Chesterfield, the like distance S.E. from Sheffield, and three N. from Staveley. The lands of this parish are chiefly appropriated to agriculture; in some of the townships scythes and sickles are manufactured in considerable quantities, and nails, in the village, but not so extensively."

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

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Directories

• A Description of Eckington has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Transcription of section of Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831 for Eckington, by Rosemary Lockie.

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Eckington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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