WEST HALLAM, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District..
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of the 1543 Census in a text file for your use. Most census returns prior to 1840 just list the head of household.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Wilfrid (spelling variations abound).
  
  
• The church was originally constructed in 1275.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1855.
  
  
• The church seats 260.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538, but early years are in bad condition.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of (partially) extracted Parish Register baptisms in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• We also have a pop-up window of (partially) extracted Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• And we have a pop-up window of a handful of extracted Parish Register marriages for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• Marriages at West Hallam, 1638-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The church is in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"WEST HALLAM is a small parish (having no dependent township) in the same hundred as Ilkeston, two miles S.W. from that town. It contains the parish church, which is dedicated to St. Wilfrid, and a free school, originally endowed by the Rev. John Scargill, in 1662. The living of Hallam is a discharged rectory, in the patronage (some years since) of Francis Newdigate, Esq. The parish contained, in 1831, 710 inhabitants."

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

The Nutbrook branch of the Erewash canal passes down the east side of the parish. The parish is about 133 miles north of London and covers 1,250 acres.

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Directories

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

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History

• The village is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book.

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Military History

• During World War II there was an Army Ordinance Depot off of Cat and Fiddle Lane to the south of the village.

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