TISSINGTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Calton sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District until 1901.
  
  
• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District after 1901.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
  
  
• Peter TARLETON has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on the Geo-graph website, taken in 2006.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1658.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.
  
  
• There is a photograph of the tiny Methodist Chapel on the Geo-graph website, taken in 2008.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Calton sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District until 1901.
  
  
• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District after 1901.
  

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Description and Travel

"TISSINGTON is a small parish, in the hundred of Wirksworth. In the village, which is situate about 4 miles N. from Ashbourn, are five springs of the purest water, in connexion with which, a curious ancient custom, termed the 'Floralia', or 'well-dressing', prevails among the villagers, annually upon Ascension day, when these fountains are decorated with the choicest flowers, as offerings to the Naiads, which is thus executed - Blocks of wood are obtained (in) the required form, which are coated over with wet clay, into which the flowers are stuck, in various devices and inscriptions, so as completely to cover the bed and present a beautiful mass of flowers."

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

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Directories

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

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Military Records

• There is a photograph of the War Memorial plaque in the church on the Roll of Honour site, along with a list of the names.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth 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 Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
  

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