WINGERWORTH, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of 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 All Saints.
  

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Church Records

• We have a pop-up window of Wingerworth burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• There is a transcript in English of a partial register from the Hunloke Catholic Mission at Wingerworth from 1737 to 1755 at Sheffield Archives (Ref: 1989/75). There are also (incomplete) registers from 1818-39 and 1839-c1854, after which the Mission was closed, being superseded by the Church of the Annunciation in Chesterfield, for which registers are also available at Sheffield Archives. The 19th century registers are in Latin.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Chesterfield.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"WINGERWORTH, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles S.W. of Chesterfield. It is situated on the line of the Midland railway, the ancient Icknield Street and river Rother, and has some "rock-basins" at Stainedge Cliff. The surface is hilly, and the substratum abounds in coal, iron-stone, and freestone. It is chiefly the property of Sir H. J. J. Hunloke, Bart., who is lord of the manor, and resides at the Hall, rebuilt in 1724 on the site of the former hall, which was taken possession of and garrisoned for the parliament in 1643."

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

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Directories

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

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History

• The Wingerworth Parish Council website provides a history of Wingerworth written by David Edwards.
• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Wingerworth.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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