WOODVILLE (formerly Wooden Box), Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
  
  
• Some of the Census Returns are online.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Stephen.
  
  
• The church founding stone was laid on 7 November 1845 and completed the next year.
  
  
• The church is a grade II listed building with British Heritage.
  
  
• The church may actually stand in Leicestershire.
  

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Church Records

• The Parish Registers are online.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1894 to replace an earlier, smaller chapel.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
  

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Correctional Institutions

• The parish had a gaol or "lock-up" for county prisoners, built in 1846, but not occupied until late in 1847.
  

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Description and Travel

"About a mile S.E. from Hartshorn is the prosperous hamlet of WOODEN BOX, where are many pottery works, the inhabitants are almost exclusively employed."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The village is divided by the A511's traffic island. The village is virtually swallowed up by the conurbation of Swadlincote and Midway. The parish borders Leicestershire to the south.

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Petty session hearings were held here for parishes in Derby, Leicester and Staffordshires every other Tuesday.
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1901	2,567

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