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WILLINGTON, Derbyshire

"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]

Church Records

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Willington, 1698-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 6).

Description and Travel

• Dave Harris has an excellent Willington Web Site. There are some exellent photographs of Willington today (including Churches), with comprehensive notes on Willington Village history, and more. Very well worth a visit.

Directories

• A (short) Description of Willington has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.

• Directory for Melbourn, Repton-with-Bretby, Ticknall, Caulk, Chellaston, Foremark-with-Ingleby, Smisby, Stanton-by-Bridge, Swarkeston, Twyford, Willington and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Willington by Ann Andrews. Added 6 May 2006.

Gazetteers

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

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