STANTON BY DALE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in 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 church was rebuilt in 1350, but the tower is a 15th century addition.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1872.
  
  
• The church seats about 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1604 and is in good condition.
  
  
• Marriages at Stanton by Dale, 1605-1812 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.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Shardlow Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"STANTON-BY-DALE, a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 9 miles N.E. of Derby, its post town, and 2 N. of Ilkeston. It is a station on the Erewash Valley railway. The village, which is chiefly agricultural, is situated near the Erewash and Nutbrook canals. Coal is found here. The Donnington hounds meet in this parish. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in the iron works"

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

The Erewash and Nutbrook Canal runs through the parish. The parish covers just over 1,491 acres.

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Directories

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

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History

• The village is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book.
  
  
• The village feast was held on the Sunday before Michaelmas Day (29 September).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The parish had Almshouses built in 1711 by Mrs. Winifred MIDDLEMORE for four persons.
  
  
• Two other almshouses were built in 1735 by Mr. Gregory GREGORY.
  

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