HASLAND, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield 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 built in 1851.
  
  
• The church seats 388.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1851.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"HASLAND, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2 miles S.E. of Chesterfield. The township adjoins the village of Wragby, of which it includes a portion. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage* of Chesterfield, in the diocese of Lichfield. The principal residence is Hasland Hall."

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

• Margaret Hartshorn provides a Hasland village website, complete with census data and other family historian facts and figures.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Hasland entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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History

• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Hasland.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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