WALTON ON TRENT, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Gesley 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 church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
  
  
• The church was built in the 13th century.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"WALTON-UPON-TRENT is a parish (having no dependent township), in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, about 4 miles S.W. from Burton. It was here that Edward II. forded the Trent in pursuit of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and the disaffected barons. A new bridge is in progress of erection here, which, in connexion with the new road before-mentioned in the account of Swadlincote, will reciprocally benefit the parts adjacent to it."

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

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Directories

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Walton upon Trent 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 Walton upon Trent from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley 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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