REPTON, Derbyshire
Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Wystan.
- The church seats 600.
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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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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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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
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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)