PINXTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Blackwell sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen (or Helena).
- The church seats 180.
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Church Records
- Carol Ryan provides a transcription by of over 150 Pinxton Marriage 'Strays' - marriages of Pinxton residents which have taken place elsewhere. Added 5 Apr 2011.
- 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.
- 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 Blackwell sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"PINXTON, a township, parish, and scattered village, near the western verge of the county, 3¼ E. by S. from Alfreton. It contains 943 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, is a small edifice on an eminence in the centre of the parish. The living is a rectory, the Rev. Ellis Williams is the rector. Here is a new school. The Methodists have a chapel here. The Erewash Valley branch of the Midland Railway has a station here, and with the canal opens an extensive market for the coals of this neighbourhood to all parts of the kingdom."
[Description from Harrison, Harrop & Co.'s Directory & Gazetteer of Derbyshire, 1860]
The parish is 132 miles north of London and 6 miles outh of Mansfield.
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Pinxton 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 Pinxton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.