IDRIDGEHAY & ALTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• This parish had a Chapel of Ease from Wirksworth.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint James.
  
  
• The church was built in 1855.
  
  
• The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1856.
• This church seats 240.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1855.
  
  
• Copies of the registers are at the Derbyshire Record Office for baptisms from 1855 to 1943 and for marriages from 1858 to 1943.
  
  
• Microfilm copies of the registers are at the London Family History Centre for 1855 to 1975.
  
  
• The churh was in the rural deanery of Wirksworth.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built in Ireton Wood township in 1869.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"IDERIDGEHAY, a township in the parish of Wirksworth, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 3 miles S. of Wirksworth, its post town, 10 N.W. of Derby, and 4 W. of the Belper railway station."

"ALLTON (also Alton), a township in the parish of Wirksworth and hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 2 miles to the S. of Wirksworth. It is now united with Idridgehay."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township in Wirksworth parish in Derbyshire.
  
  
• This township was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish in December, 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 reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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