EDLASTON & WYASTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne 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 James.
  
  
• The church was built in the 14th century.
  
  
• The church was repaired in 1682 and again in 1840.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1870.
  

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Church Records

• We have a pop-up window of Edlaston burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has the parish register for 1573 through 1981 on microfilm, which means you can order them at a local LDS Family History Centre.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"EDLASTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 3 miles S. of Ashbourne, its post town and railway station."

"WYASTON, a township in the parish of Edlaston, county Derby, 2 miles S. of Ashbourne."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

Edlaston is listed in "The Derbyshire Village Book" published by the Derbyshire Federation of Women's Institutes & Countryside Books, 1991. ISBN 1 85306 133 6.

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Directories

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

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial inside St. James' Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• Edlaston and Wyaston have a long history as separate townships, yet they form a single village.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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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 Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
  

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