South Wingfield

South Wingfield is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes two stops every fourth Tuesday in the afternoon.

The Library at Alfreton is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Mike SPENCER and Jon CANRILL have provided an extract of Parish Register burials for your review. Your additions and corretions are welcomed.

Alan HEARDMAN also has a photograph of All Saints Lych Gate on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built around 1360 on the road to the hamlet of Oakerthorpe.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1803.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1877.
   
• The church nave was restored in 1885.
   
• The churchbells were rehung on an iron frame in 1902.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• The church was flooded in 2019.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2011.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN provides a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2007.
   
• Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1585 and is in fair condition.  There are gaps between 1628 and 1632 and again between 1675 and 1696.
   
• Marriages at South Wingfield, 1585-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• And there is available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's Phillimore's images the 1641 Protestation Roll for this parish.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
   
• David BEVIS provides a photograph of the Zion Methodist church on Manor road on Geo-graph, taken in 2010. I have no history on this chapel.
   
• J. THOMAS also has a photograph of this Methodist church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Birch Lane Methodist church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2016. This chapel stood about a mile north of the village of South Wingfield near the Amber River.
   

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

"SOUTH WINGFIELD is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale, two miles E. by N. from Crich, and the like distance west from Alfreton. The village, picturesque and neat, is chiefly celebrated for the interesting ruins of its ancient manor house, of which mention is more particularly made in the account of Alfreton (page 10) The places of worship are, the parish church, dedicated to All Saints, and a chapel for Wesleyan methodists. The living of Wingfield is a discharged vicarage in patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The parish (which has no dependent township) contained, by the returns made to government in the year 1831, 1,091 inhabitants."

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

The parish lies 141 miles north of London and 4 miles north of Derby. The River Amber passes through the parish. Oakerthorpe is a township and hamlet in the parish, east of the village and across the railroad tracks.

Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of the River Amber adjacent to South Wingfield Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.

The Railway Station in the village closed for passenger service in the 1960s. The station itself is still regarded as a significant piece of local history.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the South Wingfield entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the South Wingfield entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for South Wingfield from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from South Wingfield to another place.

Lucy PLATTS (b. 1708, South Wingfield, daug. of of William PLATTS, b. ab. 1682), married John ALSOP, 1729, at South Wingfield.

• The Local History Group has a photograph of a "VE Day Party 1945, 53 Manor Road." on their Facebook page. See SOCIETIES below.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Anchor Inn in Oakerthorpe on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Old Yew Tree Inn on the B5035 on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2010.
   
• Roger MAY has a photograph of the Peacock Inn on the A615 on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005.

Wingfield Manor is a ruined manor house built around 1450 and now managed by English Heritage.

Mary, Queen of Scots, stayed several months imprisoned in the Old Manor House here in 1569.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK375553 (Lat/Lon: 53.093597, -1.441474), South Wingfield which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Lieutenant Miles Halton TRISTRAM of the 12th Royal Lancers lived in this parish in the late 1800s. Miss Joyce Halton TRISTRAM, Miles' daughter, died in Canada in 1930.
   
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry PEARSON, son of John PEARSON, of the Sherwood Foresters, 3rd Regt., resided in this parish in Wingfield House from 1891 through 1912.
   
• During World War One, there was a Red Cross VAD Hospital here.
   
• The War Memorial is a wall-mounted oblong granite tablet with a thin incised border and an incised inscription in upright capital block lettering, all infilled in white. It is on the east facing stone wall of the Market Place on Manor Road where it intersects with Inns Lane.  The plaque records 19 who fell in World War One and 11 who fell in World War Two.  This memorial was dedicated in October, 2019.
   

Lewis BOOTH is recorded as enlisting in 1917 in the South Staffordshire Regt. The BOOTH surname occurs often in old records of this place.

In All Saints Churchyard stands the Commonwealth War Grave of William BRIDDON, RAFVR, Flight Sergeant, RAF 214 Sqdn. died 4 March 1945. Son of William and Ellen BRIDDON, of South Wingfield.

The Names on the War Memorial Plaque are as follows (details added as found):

1. Rflmn Irvine BENSON, KRRC, son of John and Hannah BENSON.
2. Pte. William Meek BINNIE, Sherwood Foresters.
3. Pte. Harold A. BOWLER, 11th Bn. Sherwood Foresters, buried in So. Wingfield Baptist Churchyard, son of Mrs. Matilda BOWLER.
4. Pte. William BRADWELL, KRRC.
5. Pte. Joseph BUTLER
6. Pte. W. G. CHRISTIAN, 6th Bn. Wiltshire Regt., husband of Isabel Florence CHRISTIAN.
7. Pte. J. W. CLAYTON
8. Pte. H. COOPER
9. Pte. Samuel FOX, 10th Bn. Sherwood Foresters, son of John and Selina FOX.
10. Pte. W. D. GILKS, 1st Lincs. Regt., husband of Ethel Mary GILKS, of 125 Brushfield St., Hyson Green, Nottingham.
11. Pte. Elisha Horn HARRIMAN, 18th Bn. West Yorkshire Regt., son of William and Ily Horn HARRIMAN.
12. Pte. R. HARRISON
13. Pte. Arthur Cecil HINTON, 2nd, Bn. Sherwood Foresters, son of Joseph and Elizabeth HINTON, Staveley, Chesterfield.
14. Cpl. S. R. JONES
15. Captain B. R. W. SMITH
16. Gdsn. R. W. STEVENSON
17. Pte. B. C. TROWN
18. Pte. F. WHITE
19. Pte. S. WHITE
    
    1939 - 1945
20. Gdsn. M. H. BOWLER
21. Flt. srgt. William BRIDDON, RAFVR 214 Sqdn.
22. Pte. Sidney COWLISHAW, died on HMS Lancastria during Dunkirk
23. Pte. James Peter HAYES, 1st. Bn. Essex Regt., husband of Joan Lovaine HAYES, of South Wingfield, Derbyshire.
24. Flt. Off. William LYNAM, RAFVR, RAAF Sqdn. 460, husband of Lilian Edith LYNAM.
25. Pte. C. W. MARTIN
26. Pte. William Benjamin MURFIN, 1t Bn, Northamptonshire Regt., son of William and Sarah Jane MURFIN.
27. Srgt. Arthur PRINCE, RAFVR, 107 Sqdn. RAF, son of Joseph Rodgers and Caroline PRINCE, South Wingfield.
28. Pilot Off. N. A. ROWELL
29. Air Mech. H. W. SIMMS
30. Pte. O. A. THOMPSON

• Jane TAYLOR shares this notice from the Derby Mercury of 24 December, 1801: "MARRIED: A few days since, Mr. PALMER, of Belper, to Miss Martha WALKER, of Southwingfield Park; both in this county."
   

Jane TAYLOR of Redcar offers this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 10 February 1803: "DIED: On the 7th instant aged 100 years, Mrs ORME of Wingfield Park, in this county."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the South Wingfield Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are Not staffed to help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alfreton petty session hearings.
   
• In 1818, the Referend Francis GISBORNE funded an annual charity of £7 and 5s worth of flannel to clothe the poor.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.

Joseph BOOTH, who died on 9 Jan 1883 had his estate probated on 16 Feb 1883.

The South Wingfield Public Elementary School was erected in 1875 and rebuilt in 1912 for 210 mixed and 140 infant students.

John M. has a photograph of the South Wingfield Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.

Andrew HILL also has a photograph of the South Wingfield Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.

Please contact the South Wingfield Local History Group and advise them of your interests.