STAPENHILL, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Burton upon Trent sub-district of the Burton upon Trent 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 Peter.
  
  
• The church was rebuilt in 1830 (or 1838, sources vary) on the site of an older, ruinous church.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"STAPENHILL is a parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley; the village being about 2 miles S.W. from Burton- upon-Trent. The parish, in which are coal mines, is bounded on the west by the river Trent. The church is dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a discharged vicarage, in the gift of the Marquess of Anglesey; the incumbent is the Rev. Henry Des Voeux, and his curate the Rev. Joseph Clay. A charity school has been erected by the last-named rev. gentleman, and is supported by his munificence, and that of the Miss Clays'. The parish contained, in 1831, 1,926 inhabitants, & the township 572 of that number."

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

Stapenhill had a ferry across the Trent River.

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Gazetteers

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

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Historical Geography

• Stapenhill was originally a parish belonging to Derbyshire, but "transferred to Staffordshire in 1894 and now included within the borough of Burton on Trent."
  (Ref: The Place-Names of Derbyshire, K. Cameron, Cambridge University Press, 1959)

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
• The parish included the townships of Stapenhill, Caldwell and Stanton and Newhall. Caldwell split off and became a separate Civil Parish.
  
• This parish was in the ancient Reton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
• In March, 1904, this Civil Parish was abolished and the parish amalgamated into Burton upon Trent Civil Parish.
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  

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