PENTRICH, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ripley 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 Saint Matthew.
  
  
• The church was built circa 1150.
  
  
• The church tower was extended in the late 1500s.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1859.
  
  
• The church is a Grade I listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1621 for baptisms.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• We also have a pop-up window of the 1640 Protestation Rolls in a text file for your review.
  
  
• Photographs of Pentrich Gravestones from the churchyard can be viewed at John MILLS' website.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"PENTRICH, a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Belper, its post town, 2½ S.W. of Alfreton, and 3 W. of the Ambergate railway station. The village, which is considerable, and was formerly a market town, is situated on the road from Birmingham to Sheffield through Ripley, near the Cromford canal tunnel and the river Derwent. The tunnel of the Cromford canal is 2,966 yards in length, and in the neighbourhood is the reservoir of the Nottingham canal."

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

There is a good photograph of Pentrich main road taken by Alan MURRY-RUST on Geo-graph.

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Directories

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

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History

• The parish is famous for the "Pentrich Revolution", an act of civil unrest from June, 1817, when a large body of men planned to march oin Nottingham to protest rising food prices and the depression and unemployment that followed the ending of the Napoleonic Wars.
  
  
• We have a list of those who were punished for participating in the Pentrich Revolution.
  
  
• There is a photograph of the Pentrich Revolution Plaque taken by Mikd BARDILL on Geo-graph.
  

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial outside St. Matthew's Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials.
  
  
• Inside St. Matthew's Church there is a memorial window to Lieut. Bernard R. WINTHROP-SMITH who died in World War One.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch 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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