KIRK IRETON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2518 & 2524 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2756 |
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Church Records
- Marriages at Kirk Ireton, 1572-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
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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
"KIRK IRETON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 3 miles S.W. of Wirksworth. The village, which is considerable, was much damaged by a tornado in 1811, which unroofed the houses and twisted large trees from their roots. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £355, in the patronage of the bishop."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Kirk Ireton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).