TWYFORD & STENSON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish chapel is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
  
  
• The lower part of the tower dates from 1200.
  
  
• The church was damaged by lightning in 1821 and by fire in 1910.
  
  
• The church is Grade I listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• There is a good photograph of St. Andrew's Church at Flickr.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1657, but the early years are illegible and in poor condition.
  
  
• The Anglican parish Bishop's Transcripts date from 1662 and are available on microfilm at the London Family History Centre.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a brick chapel in Stenson in 1845.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"TWYFORD is a village, and with STENSON, form a chapelry, in that part of the parish of Barrow which is in the hundred of Appletree, pleasantly situate on the banks of the Trent, five and a half miles S.S.W. from Derby. The chapel is dedicated to St. Andrew, and the living is connected with the vicarage of Barrow. The chapelry contained, In 1821, 235, and in 1831, 219 inhabitants."

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

The village of Twyford sits along the north bank of River Trent about 131 miles north of London and 5.5 miles SSW of Derby city. The parish covers 1,800 acres. Photographs of the village can be found at Derbyshire Photos. The name means "double ford".

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Directories

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

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History

• Twyford and Stenson anr both mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book.
  
  
• There is a large tumulus about a half mile east of the village. Local lore has it that the mound contains the bodies of those killed in the English Civil War.
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was a Chapelry in Barrow-upon-Trent parish in ancient Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient High Peak Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
• In 1983 a Civil Parish was created for Stenson Fields, which included parts of Twyford and Barrow-on-Trent parishes. It was originally called Sinfin Moor, but the name was changed to reflect historic place names.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.
  
  
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1841.
  

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