SHOTTLE & POSTERN, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2518 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2750 |
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"SHOTTLE, a township in the parish of Duffield, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 2 miles S.W. of Belper. It is in conjunction with Postern to form a township." "POSTERN, a township in the parish of Duffield, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 4 miles N. of Derby. It is joined with Shottle to form a township."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Shottle and Postern entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).