NORTH WINGFIELD, Derbyshire

Cemeteries

• Inscriptions on the War Memorial, recorded by John Mills on his Bygone Days In Ashover site.

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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

• The Anglican parish church was originally dedicated to Saint Lawrence, but was subsequently transferred (date not reported) to Saint Helen.
  
  
• The church was originally built before 1321.
  
  
• The church was repaired and reroofed in 1880.
  
  
• The churchyard was enlarged by two acres in 1887.
  
  
• The church seats 400.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1567, but some early portions are illegible.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Lawrence's Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  
  
• The Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists had chapels here by 1891.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel in Ling's Row here by 1891.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists, Free Methodists and Methodist New Connection had a chapels in Tupton here by 1891.
  

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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

"NORTH WINGFIELD, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 4 miles S.E, of Chesterfield. It is situated on the river Rother, and the Roman Icknield Street near the line of the North Midland railway, which has a station at Clay Cross, where it is carried through a tunnel 1,760 yards long, 22 feet wide, and 26 high. The expense of constructing this tunnel is said to have been £100 per yard, or £176,000. The parish comprises 7,603 acres, and has increased in population from 3,144 in 1841 to 7,339 in 1861, or more than double in 20 years."

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

The parish included the townships of Williamsthorpe, Clay Lane, Pilsley, Stretton, Tupton and Woodthorpe. Pilsley became a separate parish, and Clay Lane, Stretton and Woodthorpe later formed Clay Cross parish.

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale 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 Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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