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Stanton and Newhall

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STANTON AND NEWHALL, a township in the parish of Stapenhill, hundred of Repton, county Derby, 3 miles S.E. of Burton-upon Trent, its post town, and 6 N.W. of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in the collieries; there are also earthenware and brick works. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £100, in the patronage of trustees. The church, dedicated to St. John, has a square tower. There is a National school for both sexes, also an infant school. The Wesleyans have a chapel.”

from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

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Archives & Libraries

Newhall is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at Sainsbury's Car Park on every fourth Wednesday in the late morning.

Stanton village is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops on the Manor Road every fourth Wednesday around noon.

Alternatively, the Swadlincote Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

 

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Census

  • The parish was in the Gesley sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1861R.G. 9 / 1963
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Church History

  • Newhall is a separate ecclesiastical parish in the parish of Stapenhill, formed in 1835.
     
  • The Anglican parish church in Newhall is dedicated to Saint John.
     
  • Saint John's Church was built in 1842 just off High Street.
     
  • The church was in restored in 1884 and the chancel added.
     
  • The church seats 500.
     
  • Alex McGREGOR has a photograph of the west end of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register of St. John's church dates from 1842 (one source gives 1833).
     
  • The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
     
  • You might look for your relatives in the Parish register on Brett PAYNE's Freepages site.
     
  • The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1816.
     
  • The Wesleyan Reformers had a chapel built here in 1855.
     
  • The Roman Catholic Church was built here in Overstreet road in 1886 and dedicated to Saint Edward the Confessor.
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Civil Registration

  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
  • The parish was in the Gresley sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
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Description & Travel

"STANTON and NEWHALL is a joint township, in the parish of Stapenhill, between 2 and 3 miles from Burton-upon-Trent. In that part of the township called Newhall, has been erected a handsome church and parsonage house, at the sole expense of the Rev. Joseph Clay, of Stapenhill; this munificent act, which has been effected at the cost of £7,000. has been the means of producing a reformation in the habits and morals of many of the inhabitants, which must be eminently gratifying to the benevolent pastor. The joint township contained at the last census, 1,182 inhabitants, but it is estimated the number since that period has much augmented, from the increasing importance of the potteries and collieries in this part of the parish."

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

Swadlincote is the closest town and there is regular bus service from Burton upon Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Repton parish lies to the north. Newhall township today is a suburb of Swandlincote.

You can see pictures of Stanton and Newhall which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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History

Paul GULLIVER has a photograph of the Newhall Memorial building on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK278203 (Lat/Lon: 52.779627, -1.588968), Stanton and Newhall which are provided by:

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Military History

The WW2 War Memorial is described as: "An ornamental mild steel hand gate with flat frame and round vertical rods terminated with fleurs de lis, all painted black. The gate is supported on a pair of brick piers, each of which bears an upright oblong bronze plaque with narrow raised border and inscription in raised upright capital roman lettering.""

There is a "combined" War Memorial that is a sandstone tablet bearing smaller tablets and plaques and accompanied by benches.

There is also a small slate table listing names from two other conflicts.

The gate has a plaque inscribed:

"NEWHALL
AND
STANTON
MEMORIAL GATE
ERECTED BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION
NOVEMBER 1950."
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Military Records

The slate tablet for World War One carries these names (Some names revised after research):

  1. Adams J.
  2. Adams W.
  3. Alesbrook George, East Lancashire Regt.
  4. Allsop G.
  5. Barker W. E.
  6. Beard A246.
  7. Beard Arthur, Sherwood Foresters
  8. Beeson John Henry, Sherwood Foresters
  9. Bennett E.
  10. Bennett J.
  11. Bircher T., North Staffs. Regt.
  12. Bird A.
  13. Bladon H.
  14. Boam Frncis H., Durham Light Infantry
  15. Brearley B. S., Liverpool Regt.
  16. Brewin J. W.
  17. Brown H.
  18. Brown W.
  19. Clowes J. E. H.
  20. Comley C. H., Tank Corps
  21. Cook H.
  22. Cooper Charles Edwin, Sherwood Foresters
  23. Copstake W. (Probably COPESTAKE, Wilfred, Royal West Surrey Regt.)
  24. Dawson Thomas Sydney, East Lancashire Regt.
  25. Deighton W.
  26. Dennis F.
  27. Dobson S. H.
  28. Draper W.
  29. Draycott G.
  30. Dunn E. J.
  31. Earp J. A.
  32. Eves F. T.
  33. Eyley H.
  34. Fairbrother H.
  35. Faulkner C. H.
  36. Fish T.
  37. Fish W. H.
  38. Gazey W.
  39. Goadsby P.
  40. Goodwin G.
  41. Gough H.
  42. Greaves W.
  43. Green JH.
  44. Green T.
  45. Hall A. J.
  46. Hardwick John Robert, Suffolk Regt.
  47. Harvey D.
  48. Harvey W. G.
  49. Hibberd H.
  50. Hill L.
  51. Horrobin Mark, North Staffs. Regt.
  52. Hough J. W.
  53. Illsley J.
  54. Insley A. MM.
  55. Insley Percy A. H., Durham Light Infantry
  56. James T.
  57. Jones J.
  58. Kirkland J.
  59. Lathbury D.
  60. Lawley J. P.
  61. Layte A.
  62. Mansfield J. C.
  63. Marriott A.
  64. Marriott D.
  65. Martin G.
  66. Matthews A.
  67. Matthews G.
  68. Meadows G. S.
  69. Moon T.
  70. Nettle A. MM.
  71. Nettle William, North Staffs. Regt.
  72. Orme J. W.
  73. Paling G.
  74. Parker W.
  75. Radford S.
  76. Redfern G. F.
  77. Redfern J. J.
  78. Redfern T.
  79. Redfern W.
  80. Richardson. J.W.
  81. Rogers A.
  82. Round A.
  83. Rowbottom G.
  84. Sharpe A.
  85. Shaw J.
  86. Slack Francis Evlyn, North Staffs. Regt.
  87. Smart D.
  88. Smart J.
  89. Smart W.
  90. Staley D. MM.
  91. Staley E.
  92. Staley J.
  93. Stephenson T. MM.
  94. Stone J.
  95. Thomas G. L.
  96. Tilley T.
  97. Wileman A. MM.
  98. Wilkinson A.
  99. Wilkinson C. W.
  100. Williams E. J.
  101. Wright A.

All 40 people noted on the War Memorial gate perished during WW2 (Some names revised after research):

  1. Norman ASTLE, Royal Engineers
  2. G. W. BAILEY
  3. S. BANNISTER
  4. S. BAXTER
  5. Sydney Ernest BELCHER
  6. Lancelot BOOTH, Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
  7. C. A. BREALEY
  8. G. P. BRIERS
  9. Horace Henry COLLINS, RAF Vol. Rsrv.
  10. H. COOPER
  11. Jesse Ernest COTTON, RAF Vol. Rsrv.
  12. R. H. COX
  13. L. V. DAVIS
  14. Jack DOUGHTY, Sherwood Foresters
  15. John Frederick DUGAN, RAOC
  16. A. EAMES
  17. Albert James EAMES, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
  18. Seth James FLETCHER, Sherwood Foresters
  19. K. W. HALL
  20. G. A. HARDWICK
  21. Harry HARDWICK, RAF Vol. Rsrv.
  22. G. HARVEY
  23. John Harold INSLEY, Royal Armoured Corps
  24. Frank Clement LOCKER, RN, H.M.S. Grebe
  25. S. H. MORLEY
  26. M. SHARPE
  27. David George SHERRATT, Sherwood Foresters
  28. Robert Isaac SHIPP DSM. H.M.S. Vimiera
  29. A. SMITH
  30. H. SMITH
  31. Roy STALEY, RAF Vol. Rsrv.
  32. Robert Mark THOMAS, RAF Vol. Rsrv.
  33. H. WALL
  34. J. R. B. WARD
  35. Eric WEBSTER, The London Rifle Brigade
  36. F. WEBSTER
  37. J. A. WHETTON
  38. Joseph Eric WOODGATE, RAF Vol. Rsrv.
  39. E. WRIGHT
  40. J. WRIGHT

G. P. BRIERS, above, is probably George Frederick BRIERS of the Sherwood Foresters. No "G. P. Briers" is found in the Commonwealth War Grave index.

The small slate War Memorial tablet honors these two veterans:

  1. HALL, K. W., 28.02.1948, Palestine
  2. ASTON R. C., 24.06.2003, Iraq
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Politics & Government

  • This place was two ancient townships in Stapenhill parish in Derbyshire. They became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
     
  • This parish was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
     
  • In April, 1934, this parish gained 14 acres from Bretby Civil Parish and 51 acres from Hartshorne Civil Parish.
     
  • District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

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Schools

Stanton's Public Elementary (mixed) School was erected in 1876 and enlarged in 1895 for 126 children.

Newhall's Public Elementary (mixed and infants) School was erected in 1895 for 660 mixed and 307 infants.

Mark WALTON has a photograph of the Newhall Infant & Nursery Schoolg on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.

The Catholic (mixed) School on Oversetts was built to handle 200 children.