KIRK HALLAM, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  
  
• Some 1861 Census pages have portions of the parish in the Horsley 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 late Norman period, but no precise date is recorded. The church had a vicar in 1296.
  
  
• The church is on Ladywood Road.
  
  
• The church was in a ruinous state in 1778.
  
  
• The church was repaired in 1844 and the porch rebuilt.
  
  
• The church is Grade I listed with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church seats 90.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1660.
  
  
• Marriages at Kirk Hallam, 1700-1837 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"KIRK HALLAM, a parish in the hundreds of Appletree and Morleston, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Derby. It is situated on a branch of the Erewash canal, and contains the township of Mapperley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value £280. The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, stands in the hundred of Morleston. The charities produce about £6 per annum."

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

The parish is on the Nutbrook Canal 8 miles west of Nottingham.

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

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

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