HOGNASTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne 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 Bartholomew.
  
  
• The church was built in the 12th century.
  
  
• The church is, naturally enough, on Church Lane.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1880-81.
  
  
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church seats 250.
  
  
• There is a photograph of St. Batholomew's Church at Geograph.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1661 and is in good condition.
  
  
• The churh was in the rural deanery of Wirksworth.
  
  
• The Family History Centre in London has the parish register for 1661 - 1981 and the Bishop's Transcripts for 1673 - 1872 each on microfilm.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1827.
  
  
• The Congregationalists had a chapel built here in 1882.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HOGNASTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Ashbourne, its railway station and post town, and 5 S.W. of Wirksworth. The village, which is small, is situated on a branch of the river Dove. The inhabitants are wholly agricultural. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £55.

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

The parish is in the Derbyshire Dales area. There is a modern description of the parish at Derbyshire Net.

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Directories

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

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History

• In the 1700s and 1800s, most of the parish was dairy pasturage.
  
  
• The village hall was built in 1982 from the stones of houses submerged by Carsington Water reservoir, which is just to the east of the parish.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Hognaston by Barbarann Ayars.
  
  
• Large parts of the parish are in the Hognaston Conservation Area.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• The Hognaston Parish Council meets in the village Hall.
  
  
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales Disctrict Council.
  

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