LONG EATON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow 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 Lawrence.
  
  
• Local legend dates the church to the 11 century, but it appears to be an 12th century construct..
  
  
• The church was repaired in 1831.
  
  
• The church seats 250.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1830. This chapel was passed on to the Reformist Methodists after the Wesleyans built a new chapel.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1854.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"LONG EATON, a township and district parish in the parish of Sawley, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 7½ miles S.W. of Nottingham, and 10 S.E. of Derby, its post town. It is a station on the Midland Counties railway. The village is situated near the Erwash canal. Owing to the greatly increased amount of railway traffic this place has recently much improved, and the village is now lighted with gas."

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

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Names, Personal

• Names from a history of Long Eaton & District, Derbyshire by Arthur Hooper (1954), extracted by Mike Foster.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• Long Eaton was incorporated from part of Sawley Civil Parish as its own Civil Parish in December, 1866. It covered 2,100 acres in 1881.
  
  
• In October, 1921, this parish gained 99 acres from Sandiacre Civil Parish and 1,125 acres from Sawley and Wilsthorpe Civil Parish.
  
  
• In April, 1934, this parish gained 236 acres when Sawley and Wilsthorpe Civil Parish was abolished.
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• In 1786, John HOWITT gave £20 toward the poor of the parish. In 1856, this generated 20 shillings per year which was spread amongst the poor of the parish.
  
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  

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Schools

• A National School was built and opened here in 1826.
  

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