SNELSTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Mayfield sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District prior to 1901.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District after 1901.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
  
  
• The church was almost completely rebuilt in 1825.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1572.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Mayfield sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District prior to 1901.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District after 1901.
  

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Description and Travel

"SNELSTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 3½ miles S.W. of Ashbourne, its post town, and 3 from Norbury railway station. The village is situated on the river Dove. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in the coal mines. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory of Norbury, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a square embattled tower. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. There are some charities, also a free school, which is supported by J. Harrison, Esq., the lord of the manor. Snelston Hall is the principal residence."

[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 Snelston entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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History

• In recent centuries, most of the parish was used for dairy pasturage.
  

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial at Snelston. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials site.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was both an ancient Chapelry and an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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