KNIVETON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne 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 Michael.
  
  
• The church appears to be of 13th century Norman origin.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1870.
  
  
• The church is a grade I listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church seats 150.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1591 and is in good condition.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists both had chapels here before 1857.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"KNIVETON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 3½ miles N.E. of Ashbourne, its railway station and post town. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the cotton mills. Lime-burning is carried on. The land is chiefly rich pasture. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £64. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient edifice, with a low spired tower. The parochial charities produce about £11 per annum, including the endowment of Hurd's school, &c. There is a National school."

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

The parish lies 150 miles north of London and 6 miles south-west of Wirkswirth. The parish covers 1,974 acres. The village is mostly within the Kniveton Conservation Area originally established in 1998.

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Directories

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

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History

• The parish has two Round Barrows which have been partially excavated.
• This place is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Cheniueston.
  
  
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Kniveton by Barbarann Ayars.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Mike Spencer advises (2006) that: "Kniveton was one of the parishes where the principal people of the village signed an agreement making sure no outsiders gained a legal Settlement there, and thereby become chargeable to the parish."

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