SANDIACRE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There was an ancient chapel here, dedicated to Saint Sytha (or Osyth), a Mercian princess.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
  
  
• The church was built early in the Norman era, probably around 1160.
  
  
• The whole church was restored in 1883.
  
  
• The church seats 330.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1571 for baptiusms, 1570 for burials and 1581 for marriages.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of (partially) extracted Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• Marriages at Sandiacre, 1581-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1826.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"SANDIACRE is a village, in the small parish of its name, in the same hundred as Ilkeston, about four miles, south, from that town, & about nine, east, from Derby, situate close to the western boundary of the county of Nottingham. A market and fair was formerly held in the village, but at present little importance belongs to it as a place of trade."

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

The parish borders on Nottinghashire to the east and covers 1,090 acres.

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Directories

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

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History

• There is an 1899 Photograph on FLICKR of Town Street that might be useful.

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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 Poorlaw Amendment Act of 1834 reforms, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  

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