MUGGINTON, 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

• There was a church here in Mercaston township at the time of the 1086 Domesday Survey, but all traces had disappeared by 1850.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• Most of the church structure appears to be 11th or 12th century. One wall may be Saxon work..
  
  
• The church was renovated in 1805 and again in 1845.
  
  
• A Yew tree in the churchyard is over 1,000 years old.
  
  
• The church seats 300.
  
  
• You will find a photograph of the church on Flickr.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1764 for all entries.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of partially extracted Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  

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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

"MUGGINTON, a parish in the hundreds of Appletree and Morleston, county Derby, 7 miles N.W. of Derby, its post town, and 4 W. of the Duffield railway station."

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

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Military History

• In the early morning hours of 24 July, 1944, a Whitley bomber with five aboard dove into the ground in Muggington parish. See the memorial at Airfield Archeaology, which is built directly over the crash site.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in county Derby as well as an ancient township.
  
  
• The ancient parish became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was partly in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• In 1886 this parish was broken up into its constituent townships which became Civil Parishes.
  

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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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