SUDBURY, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• A church is reported here in the 1086 Domesday survey.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints and is on the Main Road.
  
  
• The church dates from the 12th century, but also includes work from the 14th and 15th centuries.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1872-75.
  
  
• The church seats 350.
  
  
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• There is a good photograph of All Saints Church at Geo-graph.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1673.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"SUDBURY is a parish, containing a small and neat village, in the same hundred as the preceeding parishes; the village being situate 13 miles W. by S. from Derby, and 4 E. by S. from Doveridge. To the north-east of the village is Sudbury hall and park, the fine seat of Lord Vernon. The church, which is very old, stands in the garden near the hall, and being covered with ivy, presents a picturesque ornament in the scenery around it."

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

The 3,546 acres of the parish have been mostly pasturage.

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Uttoxeter Poorlaw Union in Staffordshire.
  

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