REPTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent 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 Wystan.
  
  
• The church seats 600.
  
  
• Rod JOHNSON provides a photo of St. Wystan's Church at Panaramio.
  

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Church Records

• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"REPTON is a parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley: the village, which is seven miles S.S.E. from Derby and four and a half N.E. from Burton-upon-Trent, is situate upon the declivity of a hill. The habitations are, for the most part, detached, and extend about a mile in length, having a fine trout stream running by them, which flows into the Trent. This parish is celebrated by antiquaries, as the head of the Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and the burial-place of several of her sovereigns."

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

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Directories

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Repton 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 Repton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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Military History

• Rod JOHNSON provides a photo of the War Memorial at Panaramio. The memorial stands just outside the churchyard.
  
  
• There is a photo of the War Memorial at Military Images.
  
  
• The War Memorial is a Grade II listed structure with British Heritage.
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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Schools

• A grammar school at Repton was founded in 1557 under the will of Sir John Port of Etwall.
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999)

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