KEDLESTON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was built in the 13th century.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1884-85.
  
  
• The church is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
  
  
• The church seats 100.
  
  
• We have been advised (in October 2012) that the churchyard graves have stones that lie flat or they are unmarked.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1600.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"KEDLESTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 4½ miles N.W. of Derby, its post town, 5 S.W. of Belper, and 2 S.W. of Duffield. It is a small village, situated on a branch of the river Derwent, and is a meet for the Hoar-Cross hounds. The land is chiefly rich pasture, and the greater part of the parish is included within the limits of Kedleston Park."

[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 Kedleston 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 Kedleston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• For centuries, most of the parish was pasturage.
  

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Military History

• There's still a trace of World War II in the parish, This FW3/22 pillbox is a reminder.
  

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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 reforms, this parish became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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