SOMERCOTES, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• Somercotes was originally a Chapel of Ease for Riddings parish.
  
  
• The Anglican parish chaple is dedicated to Saint Thomas.
  
  
• The chaple was built in 1852 and an ecclesiastica parish was created the following year.
  
  
• The chaple was restored in 1878.
  
  
• The chaple seats 500.
  
  
• Bill HENDERSON has a photograph of St. Thomas Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2004.
  
  
• Members of Somercotes Church have produced a booklet about the village containing stories from local people about the Village and St. Thomas's Church. The cost is £3 plus p&p. They have also produced a video, containing pictures of church processions, price £10 plus p&p. All proceeds go to St. Thomas's Church.
  
  For further information please contact Margaret Brooksbank, telephone (+44)(0)1773 604916.

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Church Records

• One should search the Riddings parish register for entries from this chapel.
  
  
• The church was in the Alfreton Deanery.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1839.
  
• The Free Methodists built a chapel at Birchwood in 1853.
  
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of the Methodist Church at Birchwood on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2006.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel at Lea Brooks in 1859.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1860.
  
  
• The Freee Methodists built a chapel on Steel Lane in 1867.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"SUMMERCOTES, a hamlet in the parish of Alfreton, county Derby, 2 miles S. of Alfreton, near the Erewash canal.

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

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Politics and Government

• The web page maintainer could find no evidence that this place was ever constituted as a Civil Parich.
  
• This place was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this place became a member of the Belper Poorlaw Union.
  

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