SHARDLOW, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was built in 1838.
  
  
• The church is dedicated to Saint James.
  
  
• Andy JAMIESON has a photograph of Shardlow Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2009.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1839.
  
  
• The Anglican church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1829.
  
  
• The Baptists built a chapel here before 1853.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"SHARDLOW is a village, in the parish of Wiln and Shardlow, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, seven miles S.E. from Derby; situate upon the banks of the river Trent, over which is a good stone bridge, forming the communication with Leicestershire; it was built by the Cavendish family, from which it takes its name. This place derives considerable importance from being a station for the trans-shipment of goods upon the Trent and Mersey canal, on the banks of which are erected warehouses. At Wiln mills is manufactured a particular sort of cotton yarn, known by the name of 'Wiln yarn', for which there is generally a considerable demand: at this place is a large poor-house. In 1821 the parish contained 993 inhabitatants, and in 1831, 1,091."

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

Current Shardlow information is at the Derbyshire villages website.

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Directories

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

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History

• The Cavendish Bridge over the River Trent was built in 1771.
  
  
• There is a history of the village at the Shardlow Heritage Centre.

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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 the centre of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  
• The Shardlow Poorlaw Union workhouse was on the London road.
  

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