SUTTON ON THE HILL, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Tutbury 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 Michael.
  

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Church Records

• Transcription by Carol Ryan of Baptisms 1813-1840 at Sutton on the Hill. Added 2 Apr 2009.
  
  
• 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 Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
  
  

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Description and Travel

"SUTTON-ON-THE-HILL, a parish and township in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 8 miles S.W. of Derby, its post town, and 5 N. of Tutbury railway station. The village is situated on a branch of the river Dove. The parish includes the township of Osleston and the small village of Ash. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £225. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The parochial charities produce about £20 per annum, of which £12 go to a school."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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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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