EGGINTON, Derbyshire
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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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.