ETWALL, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 1960 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2197 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
- The church was built in the 12th century, but the web page author could find no specific date reported.
- The church was badly damaged by a storm on 20 June, 1545.
- The church was restored in 1881.
- A Chapel of Ease was erected in Burnaston township in 1839, but was later used by the Primitive Methodists. The Methodists added a new chapel in 1884.
- There is a photograph of a painting of Saint Helen's Church at Flickr.
- The church is a Grade I listed building with British Heritage.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1551.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
- The parish also contains a modern Buddhist temple.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"ETWALL is a pleasant village, in the township of Etwall and Bearward-Cote, in the parish of Etwall, and hundred of Appletree, 6 miles W.S.W. from Derby, situate on the road leading from that town to Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire. This village is the residence of several genteel families, but is destitute of manufactures, and its local trade is very unimportant."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
Today, Etwall is just north of the A50, west of the intersection with the A38. Visit the Etwall Village website for more information.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Etwall 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 Etwall from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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History
- Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical
Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Etwall by Barbarann Ayars.
- About 2/3 of the land in the parish was used for dairy pasturage.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This ancient parish contained the three townships of Etwall, Bearwardcote and Burnaston.
- Burnaston became a separate modern Civil Parish in late 1866.
- This parish was in the ancient Appletree 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.