MILFORD, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
  
  
• A new ecclesiastical parish was formed here in 1846.
  
  
• The church was built in 1847-48.
  
  
• The church seats 500.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1846.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  
  
• There was a Unitarian church here in 1817, but all mention of it disappears by 1857.
  
  
• The Baptists built a chapel here in 1849.
  
  
• By 18957 the parish had chapels for the Wesleyan, Reformed and Primitive Methodists.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"MILFORD is a village, partly in the township of Belper and partly in the hamlet of Makeney, in the parish of Duffield; two miles S. of Belper, and 6 to the north of Derby. The river Derwent flows across the centre of the village, over which is a handsome stone bridge. The cotton works of Messrs. Strutt, which are conducted here upon a scale of great magnitude, employ the larger portion of the population. The mansions and grounds of the Hon. Capt. Gore, and of Anthony Strutt, Esq. are great embellishments to this busy little village. The population is returned with the parish."

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

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Directories

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

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Names, Geographical

• It is possible that during the latter part of the 18th century Milford may also have been known as 'New Mills'. See the New Mills parish page on this site for more details.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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