Chaddesden
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Archives and Libraries
The Phillip Whitehead Memorial Library is in Chaddesden Park and is open 4 days per week.
Cemeteries
- The Chaddesden Cemetery was built in 1855 with two mortuary chapels.
- This cemetery is also known as the Nottingham Road Cemetery. The cemetery is actually on both sides of the road.
- Francis DOLMAN has a photograph of the Nottingham Road Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
- Francis DOLMAN also has a photograph of the mortuary chapels at the main gate on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
- Sam STYLES has a pleasant photo of a quiet section of the cemetery on the Geo-graph website, taken in 2003.
Census
- The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
YearPiece No. 1861 R.G. 9 / 2494 1891 R.G. 12 / 2726
Churches
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Chaddesden area or see them printed on a map.
Church History
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
- The church was rebuilt circa 1357.
- The church seats 200.
- Michael FITCHETT has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1718 for all entries.
- Marriages at Chaddesden, 1718-1812 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
- We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
- The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1838.
- Saint Philip's Church on Taddington Road was opened by HM The Queen in 1957.
- The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Alban's is on Roe Farm Lane. Catholics used to hold mass in a building called "The Hut", installed in 1948. The new church opened in June, 1955.
Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
Description and Travel
"CHADDESDEN is a parish (having no dependent township), in the hundred of Appletree but locally situate in that of Morleston and Litchurch, two miles and a half east from Derby. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is of considerable antiquity, having a stone stall in its chancel; the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Sir Robert Wilmot. The Derby canal passes through the parish,- which contained, at the last census (1831), 469 inhabitants, for being fewer, by thirty-three, than were returned for it in 1801."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
Chaddesden is functionally a suburb on the north-east side of Derby city. Locals refer to the village as "Chad".
You can see pictures of Chaddesden which are provided by:
Directories
- Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Chaddesden entry under Spondon from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
- Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Chaddesden entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
Gazetteers
- Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Spondon entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831. Chaddesden is mentioned in the entry.
- Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Chaddesden from the National Gazetteer (1868).
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Chaddesden to another place.
Click here for a list of nearby places.
Historical Geography
You can see the administrative areas in which Chaddesden has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
Maps
- There is a 1938 map of Chaddesden on the Flickr website.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK382369 (Lat/Lon: 52.928155, -1.433192), Chaddesden which are provided by:
- This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
- Google Streetview
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- Elgin Road Works
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Military History
- There are a number of Commonwealth War Graves at a portion of the cemetery set aside for them. Daniel RICHARDSON has a photograph of the War Graves on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009.
Military Records
- Photographs of the Chaddesden War Memorial and the names on it are on the Chaddesden website. Click on the photos to enlarge the images.
Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient Chapelry in Derby county and it was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was partly in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
- In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was abolished and all 168 acres amalgamated into Morley Civil Parish.
Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1782.
- As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
- In 1891 the parish maintained six almshouses for the poor. All that remains today is a mound where they stood.
Societies
Chaddesden Historical Group meets on the first Thursday in every month at the Jubilee Club on Chaddesden Lane at 10am. Their website no longer functions.