SOUTH WINGFIELD, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was built around 1360.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1803.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1585.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  

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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

"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 in the parish.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the South Wingfield 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 South Wingfield from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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