STANTON BY BRIDGE, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
  
  
• The original church was rebuilt about 1275.
  
  
• The church chancel was restored in 1866.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1664 for baptisms, 1676 for burials and 1679 for marriages.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"STANTON-BY-BRIDGE, so named from an ancient bridge, which crosses the Trent here, and connects this parish with that of Swarkeston, is nearly 7 miles S.E. from Derby, and about two N.W. from Melbourn. The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is partly in the Norman and partly in the decorated style of architecture: the living is a rectory, in the patronage of Sir George Crewe. The population, at the census for 1831, was 215."

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

Review the the Stanton by Bridge photographs before you visit.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Stanton by Bridge entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Stanton by Bridge from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military History

• There is a World War II Pillbox still in the parish. The photo is by Russ Hamer.

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