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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.

Anglican
St Mary the Virgin, Chaddesden, Church of England

Census

The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

Census
Year Piece No.
1851 H.O. 107 / 2141
1861 R.G. 9 / 2494
1891 R.G. 12 / 2726

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2141
1861	R.G. 9 / 2494
1891	R.G. 12 / 2726

Churches

Anglican
St Mary the Virgin, Chaddesden, Church of England

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).

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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.

History

The Enoch Stone Memorial marks the spot on Derby Road where a notorious murder took place in 1856.

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.

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).
The Corporation of Derby acquired much of the land when it came up for sale in the 1930s by the Wilmot family, and started to build houses on it.
In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was abolished and all 168 acres amalgamated into Morley Civil Parish.
Chaddesden has since been absorbed by the county borough of Derby in 1968 and is now one of the most populous parts of the city.

Poor Houses, Poor Law etc.

Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
There is an index of Chaddesden Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Chaddesden" from the list of parishes displayed.
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.

Schools

Schools in Chaddesden include Lees Brook Community School (secondary school/college), Chaddesden Park Primary School, Cherrytree Hill Primary School, Meadowfarm School and Cavendish Close School.

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.