WILNE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow 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 Chad.
  
  
• The church was built in the 13th century.
  
  
• The church was across the River Derwent from the village. A small hamlet arose around the church and is known as Church Wilne.
  
  
• This church seats 350.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1540 and is in good condition.
  
  
• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has a typescript of the Wilne Parish Register for 1540 thru 1723, with a copy on microfilm 0824099 .
  
  
• The London Family History Centre has the Bishop's Transcripts for 1675 thru 1882 on microfilm 0428952 for hire.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
  
• The New Connection Methodists built a small brick chapel here in 1816.
  

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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

"WILNE, a parish in the county of Derby, 7 miles S.E. of Derby, and 4 S.W. of the Sawley railway station."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

The River Derwent runs past the village. The parish, often listed as Great Wilne or Church Wilne, contains the hamlet and township of Hopwell. Church Wilne is actually a hamlet in the the parish.

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Directories

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

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History

• Wilne is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as one village.
  
  
• In the 1700s and 1800s the parish had a number of cotton mills which produced cloth.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).

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