LANGWITH, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Cross.
- White's 1857 Directory reports the dedication is to Saint Helen.
- The church was originally built in 1140.
- The church was restored in 1877.
- The church seats 150.
- There is a photograph of Holy Trinity Church at Francis Frith's.
- The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1685 for burials.
- 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 Staveley.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"UPPER LANGWITH, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Mansfield, its post town, and 9 S.E. of Chesterfield. It is a small irregularly built village, and is wholly agricultural."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
The parish is on the Poulter River bordering Nottinghamshire, lies 3 miles south-east of Bolsover and covers 1,444 acres. Langwith today is actually a collection of four villages which extend into Nottinghamshire.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Upper Langwith entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Upper Langwith from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Names, Geographical
- Upper Langwith was also known as Langwith Bassett (q.v. Kelly's 1891 Directory entry)
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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 Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
- In April, 1935, this Civil Parish was abolished and the land divided between Shirebrook and Scarcliffe Civil Parishes.
- District governance is provided by the Bolsover District Council.
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.