SOUTH DARLEY (with WENSLEY & SNITTERTON), Derbyshire

Bibliography

• A Derbyshire Parish At War: South Darley and the Great War 1914-1919, Country Books, 2001. ISBN 1-898941-53-X.
  
  
• A Derbyshire Parish at Peace and War: South Darley 1925-1955. Life in South Darley through to World War Two and the subsequent return to peace. Country Books, 2001. ISBN 1-898941-59-9.

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Census

• The parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell 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 foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the church consecrated in June, 1845. It was intended as a chapel of ease for the parish of St Helens, Darley Dale.
  
  
• The church seats 226.
  

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Church Records

• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Helens Church Darley Dale also includes Burials 1846 to 1918 for South Darley.

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"SNITTERTON, a township in the parish of Darley, hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 2 miles E. of Winster, and 1½ mile N.W. of Matlock."

"WENSLEY, a township in the parish of Darley, county Derby, 2 miles N.E. of Winster. It is situated on the river Derwent, and is joined with Snitterton."

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

Wensley has a village website with local news and interests. At last check, the website was a little out of date.

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Directories

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

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Historical Geography

• South Darley parish, originally named 'Wensley and Snitterton', was formed from Darley in 1840 when St Mary the Virgin parish church was built. Today, the parish encompasses the villages and hamlets of Wensley, Cross Green, Darley Bridge (formerly known as Bridgetown), Oker and Snitterton.

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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.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.
  

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