MIDDLETON by WIRKSWORTH, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• This place was a chapelry to Wirkswirth church until the new church was dedicated.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to The Holy Trinity.
  
  
• The church was built in 1839 and opened for devine service in October, 1842.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1884.
  
  
• The church seats 413.
  
  
• David BEVIS has a photograph of Holy Trinity Church at Geo-graph, taken in 2009.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1839.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Wirksworth.
  
  
• The Congregationalists built a chapel here in 1786.
  
  
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Congregationalist Church at Geo-graph, taken in 2009.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here circa 1817 and rebuilt it in 1874.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1846 and rebuilt it in 1870.
  
  
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Primitive Methodist Church at Geo-graph, taken in 2009.

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"MIDDLETON-BY-WIRKSWORTH, a hamlet in the parish and hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 1 mile N.W. of Wirksworth, its post town, and 2 miles S.W. of the Cromford railway station. The village is extensive, and a portion of the inhabitants are engaged in the marble quarries. This township, in conjunction with Ible and Ironbrook Grange, forms a chapelry."

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

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Middleton by Wirksworth 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 Middleton by Wirksworth from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• For a photograph of the Middleton War Memorial and the names on it, see the Brooks Family website.
• You can also look at the list of names at Middleton Memorial website.

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Politics and Government

• The place was an ancient Chapelry in Wirkworth parish in Derby county and was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
• The parish included the townships of Ible and Ironbrook Grange.
  
  
• In April, 1934, this parish was abolished and the area amalgamated back into Wirksworth Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
  

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