ELMTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Carburton sub-district of the Worksop 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 Peter.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1771.
  
  
• The church seats 150.
  
  
• Andrew LOUGHRAN has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1599.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• Transcription by Carol Ryan of Marriages 1800-1860 at Elmton. Added 6 Feb 2009.
  
  
• Transcription by Jon Cantrill of Marriages 1861-1870 at Elmton.
  
  
• 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 Carburton sub-distgrict of the Worksop Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"ELMTON, a parish, in the same hundred as Bolsover is about 3 Miles N.E. from that town. This was the birth-place of Jedediah Buxton, the great arithmetic calculator. The church here, is dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes. The parish contained in 1821, 352 inhabitants, and at the last census (1831) the number had decreased to 340."

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

The parish is 9 miles east of Chesterfield and includes the hamlet of Cresswell. There is a photograph of Elmton village on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.

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Directories

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

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Military History

• There is a photograph of the War Memorial in Creswell village on Flickr, taken in 2006, but you can't read the individual names on it.
  

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Worksop Poor Law Union.
  
  
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1841.
  
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Eckington petty sessional hearings.

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