LULLINGTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Gesley sub-district of the Burton on Trent 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.
  
  
• There was a Christian church standing here around 1300. The tower and spire date from that period.
  
  
• Part of the spire was rebuilt in 1766.
  
  
• There present church chancel was reconstructed in 1778.
  
  
• The church seats 216.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1560.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Gesley sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"LULLINGTON is a parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, 7 miles S. from Burton-upon-Trent. It is a place of considerable antiquity, and noticed in Domesday Book by the name of Lullitune, and at the time of the Norman survey had a priest, a church and a mill. The present church is dedicated to All Saints; and the living is in the patronage of the crown. Population of the parish 548, and of the township 284 of that number."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

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Directories

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

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Lullington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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