WESSINGTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashover 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 Christ.
  
  
• The church was built in 1858.
  
  
• The opening of the church led to this village being established as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1859.
  
  
• The church was renovated in 1884.
  
  
• The church seats 208.
  
  
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of Wessington Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1859.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
  
  
• There were two Primitive Methodist chapels in the parish by 1891.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"WESSINGTON, a township in the parish of Crich, county Derby, 3 miles N.W. of Alfreton, and 1½ miles from the Wingfield railway station. The inhabitants are principally employed in the stocking manufacture. There is a Sunday-school licensed for divine worship. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have chapels."

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

The village is on the A615 arterial road between Matlock and Alfreton.

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Directories

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

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History

• There is no history of coal mining in this parish, but many men worked in mines in nearby parishes. Other rsidents were mostly either graziers or frame-work knitters.
  
  
• David BEVIS has a photograph of The Horse and Jockey Public House on Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
  
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of The Three Horseshoes Public House on Geo-graph, taken in 2008. At last report (2013), this pub was closed.
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township in Crich parish in Derby county and became a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or politcal issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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