FOSTON & SCROPTON, 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:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Paul.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1856.
  
  
• The church seats 275.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1681.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  
• Paul JONES provides a transcription of the Parish Records 1680-1812 on his website.

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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

"FOSTON, a township in the parish of Scropton, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Burton. At Scropton is a railway station on the North Staffordshire line, about 1½ mile S.E. of this village. It is situated on the N. bank of the river Dove. Foston Hall is the principal residence. Here is a meet for the Hoar Cross hounds."

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

Foston Brook is the small stream that flows through the parish.

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Directories

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Foston entry under Scropton 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 Foston & Scropton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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History

• The parish had an annual feast on the nearest Sunday to St. Paul's Day (25th of January).
  

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Military History

• In 1891, Foston Hall was the property and sometimes residence of Admiral Sir Arthur CUMMING. The Admiral had been born in France in 1817. He is probably most noted for his anti-slavery operations in the Roayl Navy. He retired from the navy in 1880.

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Politics and Government

• 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.
  
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Appletree petty session hearings.
  

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