NEWBOLD, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• There was an ancient church here in Norman times, destroyed by a Protestant Mob during the reign of William III.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist.
  
  
• The church was built in 1857.
  
  
• This church seats 320.
  
  
• Annrew LAUGHRAN has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1857.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Dronfield.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1842.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"NEWBOLD, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles N.W. of Chesterfield. The village, which is considerable, may be considered a suburb of Chesterfield. It is united with Dunstan to form a township. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield."

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

Newbold is now intergrated into the city of Chesterfield as a suburb on the northwest side of the city just west of the A61 motorway. Dunston was a hamlet in the nort-west corner of this parish.

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Directories

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

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Transcription of section of Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848, for Newbold courtesy of Sonya Addis-Smith/Jayne McHugh.

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Gazetteers

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

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History

• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Newbold.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township in Chesterfield parish and became a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
• In 1920, this parish was abolished and the land amalgamated into Chesterfield Civil Parish, with a small part joining Brampton Civil Parish.
  
  
• Apparently the historic entity of the township was also dissolved in 1920.
  

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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 Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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