MARSTON ON DOVE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon 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 Saint Mary.
  
  
• The church has been dated to the 13th century.
  
  
• The church was reparired and repewed in 1816.
  
  
• The gallery was added in 1830.
  
  
• The church seats 375.
  
  
• There is a photograph of the church on Panoramio.
  
  
• There was a Mission Church in Hatton township.
• There used to be a Chapel of Ease in Hilton township and village, but there are no remains of that building.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1654 for all entries.
  
  
• We have a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a pop-up window text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel in Hilton township in 1841.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel in Hilton township in 1847.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"MARSTON-UPON-DOVE, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Burton-on-Trent, and 1 mile N.E. of Tutbury Junction railway station."

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

The parish covers about 4,140 acres and lies about 9 miles south-west of Derby city. The southern border of this parish is the border with Staffordshire.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Marston on Dove 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 Marston upon Dove from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Maps

• Paul Jones provides a transcription of the Marston on Dove 1840 Tithe Map sorted by occupier. A very handy list of locals.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• This parish contained the townships of Marston, Hatton, Hilton, Hoon and Hargate Manor.
  

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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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