ECKINGTON, Derbyshire

Archives and Libraries

• The Library is located on Market Street.
  

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Cemeteries

• There is a photograph of the Cemetery entrance at Geograph.
  
  
• The cemetery is just north of the village on B4084.
  

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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 History

• At the 1086 Domesday Survey there was a priest working here, but no church.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Petrer and Saint Paul.
  
  
• The church appears to date from the 12th century.
  
  
• The church has been through several restorations and alterations over the centuries.
  
  
• The church is a grade I listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church seats 250.

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Church Records

• There are extracts from the Bishop's Transcripts for 1664-1865 online at Derbyshire Genealogy.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1807.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists also built a chapel in Mosborough in 1839.
  
  
• The Association Methodists built a chapel here in 1837.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a small chapel in Mosborough in 1830.
  
  
• The Roman Catholics built a church in the hamlet of Spink Hill (in Renishaw) in 1845. This building is a Grade II listed structure with British Heritage.

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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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Correctional Institutions

• In 1852, a courthouse with a lock-up was built in the village near the White Hart Hotel. The author does not know what records may exist for this facility.
  

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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]

The parish covered 6,934 acres in 1857 and included the hamlets of Mosborough, Renishaw and Troway. The parish is bounded on the east by the river Rother, with Yorkshire to the north.

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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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Military History

• This section awaiting a photograph.

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial at Spinkhill. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials site.
  
  

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was inclosed here in 1795.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment reforms, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.
  

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