WILLINGTON, Derbyshire
Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
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Church Records
- Marriages at Willington, 1698-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
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Description and Travel
"WILLINGTON is a parish, in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, about five miles N.E. from Burton-upon-Trent, and about two N.W. from Repton. The river Trent and the Grand Trunk canal pass through the parish. The church is dedicated to St. Michael: the living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the corporation of Etwall and Repton. Population of the parish, in 1821, 411, and in 1831, 402."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- A (short)
Description of Willington has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes
from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Willington 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 Willington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.