EGGINTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 1958 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2196 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Wilifrid (spelling variations abound!).
- The church entirely rebuilt around 1295.
- The church seats 300.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1561.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"EGGINTON, (or Eggington) a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 4 miles N.E. of Burton-on-Trent, its post town. It is situated near the old Roman highway Icknield Street, and within a short distance of the Willington station, on the W. branch of the Midland Counties railway. In Domesday Book it is written Eghintune, and is there described as having a church, a priest, a mill, and six farmers. The rivers Dove and Trent and the Grand Trunk canal pass through the parish."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Egginton 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 Egginton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.