OAKTHORPE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church Records

• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1857.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here by 1857, also.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"DONISTHORPE and OAKTHORPE, are two hamlets adjacent to each other, about four miles from Ashby-de-la-Zouch; they are both partly in the parish of Church-Gresley, Donisthorpe extending into that of Nether Seal, county of Leicester; and Oakthorpe stretching into Measham parish, and also into that of Stretten-en-le-Fields. They contained together, in 1831, 757 inhabitants."

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

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Oakthorpe entry under Donisthorpe 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 Oakthorpe from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township and Chapelry in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was partially in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• This parish was also partially in the ancient West Goscote Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• This Civil Parish was enlarged in March, 1884, amalgamating aprts of Measham, Seal and Stretton en le Field Civil Parishes.
  
  
• In 1897, this Civil Parish was deemed a part of Leicestershire.
  
  
• In April, 1936, this Civil Parish gained 2 acres from the Abolishment of Willesley Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish was in the Ashby De La Zouch Poorlaw Union.

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1831	757

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