UNSTONE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Dronfield sub-district of the Chesterfield 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 Mary.
  
  
• The church was built as a chapel of ease to Dronfield in 1920, but became a district church in 1925.
  
  
• Saint Mary's now serves both the Anglican community and the Methodist community.
  
  
• A photograph of the church is at at Geograph.
  
  
• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1847 but has since closed.
  
  
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1874 but has since closed.
  
  
• Apperknowle Methodist Church opened here in 1880 on High Street as a Primitive Methodist chapel.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"UNSTONE, a township in the parish of Dronfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 1 mile S.E. of Dronfield."

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

The River Drone runs through the parish. The Unstone Line is a nature preserve along the old railway line through the parish. Take the B6057 secondary road out of Chesterfield to reach Unstone.

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History

• This place was listed as "Unston" until 1908 when the "e" was added to create "Unstone".
  
  
• A railway station opened here in 1870, but passenger service ceased in 1951. Ten years later, the station closed for all rail service.
  
  
• The parish holds an annual Well Dressing around the middle of each July.
  

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial on Crow Lane. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials site.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was a hamlet and township in Dronfield parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in Decmber, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment reforms, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.
  

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