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NORTH WINGFIELD, Derbyshire

"NORTH WINGFIELD, a parish in the hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 4 miles S.E, of Chesterfield. It is situated on the river Rother, and the Roman Icknield Street near the line of the North Midland railway, which has a station at Clay Cross, where it is carried through a tunnel 1,760 yards long, 22 feet wide, and 26 high. The expense of constructing this tunnel is said to have been £100 per yard, or £176,000. The parish comprises 7,603 acres, and has increased in population from 3,144 in 1841 to 7,339 in 1861, or more than double in 20 years."

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

Cemeteries

• Inscriptions on the War Memorial, recorded by John Mills on his Bygone Days In Ashover site.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Lawrence's Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal.

Directories

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for North Wingfield (includes Tupton & New Tupton) by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

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

Societies

• North Wingfield Local History Group (NWLHG) - specialise in "Collecting, recording and studying information on North Wingfield and surrounding villages". Their interest includes the surrounding townships of Stretton, Pilsley, Woodthorpe, Clay Lane and Tupton.

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