WHITTINGTON, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Bates, Tom - A History of Old Whittington. New Age Poetry Press, 2008. ISBN 09522108 6 X.

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Census

• The parish was in 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 Bartholomew.
  
  
• The church was built in 1863, near the site of the old church, pulled down that same year.
  
  
• The church seats 610.
  
  
• A brick mission chapel was built in the hamlet of New Whittington, dedicated to Saint Barnabas.
  
  
• An iron mission chapel was built in the hamlet of Broomhill Park.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1620.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Dronfield.
  
  
• Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels were built at Old Whittington.
  
  
• A Free Methodist chapel was built at Whittington Moor.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Chesterfield Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"WHITTINGTON is a small parish, in the same hundred as Staveley, about three miles and a half west from that village, and about two and a half north from Chesterfield. The village is one to which some note is attached, as having been the place where the Earl (afterwards Duke) of Devonshire, the Earl of Derby (afterwards Duke of Leeds), Lord Delamere, and Mr. John Darcy, eldest son of the Earl of Holderness, assembled to concert measures for effecting the revolution of 1688."

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

The parish covers almost 1,600 acres and includes the hamlets of New Whittington, WHittington Moor and Sheepbridge.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Whittington entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

• Transcription of section of Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848, for Whittington courtesy of Sonya Addis-Smith/Jayne McHugh.

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Whittington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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