SPONDON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• A district church was built here in 1839 and opened for services in 1840.
  
  
• The church was formerly known as St. Mary's but in 1890 discovered to have been dedicated to St. Werburgh.
  
  
• The church seats 700.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1580 for baptisms.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• Marriages at Spondon, 1653-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1877.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"SPONDON, in the hundred of Appletree, is a parish which was formerly more extensive than now, the chapelries of Chaddesden, Lockhay, and Stanley having been some years since separated from it, and erected into distinct parishes. The village of Spondon, which is about three miles E.S.E. from Derby. is situate on a commanding eminence, overlooking the beautiful vale of Derwent, and is the residence of several highly respectable families."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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