SMISBY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch 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 James.
  
  
• The church was built in the 14th century.
  
  
• The church seats 160.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1679.
  
  
• 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 Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"SMISBY, a small parish bounded on the east by the county of Leicester, is four miles S.S.W. from Melbourn. The church is a small building: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Marquess of Hastings. Population of the parish 324."

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

Smisby has its own Village Website.

Boundary is a hamlet on the border with Leicestershire. It has since become its own Civil Parish.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Smisby 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 Smisby 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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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	235
1841	293
1851	293
1871	320

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