WILLINGTON, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 1961 |
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
- The church appears to be of Norman origan, although the web page author could not find a precise date of construction. Sources say it was originally constructed in the 12th century.
- The church tower was added in 1824.
- The church seats 220.
- The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
- Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2011.
- Rod JOHNSON also has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Panoramio, taken in 2010.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1680.
- Marriages at Willington, 1698-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's
database of scanned images of
Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1857.
- The Baptists have had an active chapel here since 1858. A new chapel was built for them on Twyford Road in 1981-82.
- Phil MYOTT has a photograph of the Baptist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
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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]
The parish is in south Derbyshire just 6 miles south of Derby city on the north bank of the River Trent. The parish covers almost 1,200 acres.
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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.
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History
- In the 17th century this place became the port furthest up the River Trent, which garnered the village a great deal of trade from exported coal.
- The railway came to the village in 1838. The station closed here in 1964. A new station was opened here in 1995.
- The bridge with five arches over the River Trent was opened in August, 1839.
- The parish feast was always held on the first Sunday after September 19th.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.