SWARKESTONE, Derbyshire

Census

Census
Year
Piece No.
1861 R.G. 9 / 2489
1891 R.G. 12 / 2720
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Civil Registration

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Description and Travel.

"SWARKESTON, as before-mentioned [Ed: with Stanton-by-Bridge], is an adjoining parish to Stanton, in the same hundred as Melbourn, about three miles from that village. Swarkeston bridge is supposed to be the longest in Europe, extending nearly a mile over the meadows and low grounds to Stanton; it was originally very narrow, but has been widened so as to allow carriages to pass each other. The Trent and Mersey canal runs through the parish, and is here joined by the Derby canal. The church is dedicated to St. James: the living is a rectory, in the same patronage as Stanton. Population, by the returns for 1831, 308."

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

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Gazetteers

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