Edlaston and Wyaston

The nearby Ashbourne Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• Mihael PATTERSON has a photograph of the Lych Gate at St. James Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   
• We have a pop-up window of Edlaston burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint James.
   
• The church was built in the 14th century.
   
• The church was repaired in 1682 and again in 1840.
   
• The church was restored in 1870.

• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has the parish register for 1573 through 1981 on microfilm, which means you can order them at a local LDS Family History Centre.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.

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

"EDLASTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 3 miles S. of Ashbourne, its post town and railway station."

"WYASTON, a township in the parish of Edlaston, county Derby, 2 miles S. of Ashbourne."

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

Edlaston is listed in "The Derbyshire Village Book" published by the Derbyshire Federation of Women's Institutes & Countryside Books, 1991. ISBN 1 85306 133 6.

• Geograph
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• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Edlaston entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Edlaston with Wyaston entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Colin HINSON provide a transcription of the section for Edlaston from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Edlaston and Wyaston to another place.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK183428 (Lat/Lon: 52.982364, -1.729064), Edlaston and Wyaston which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey 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)
• 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.

A War Memorial was placed in St. James Church in the 1920s. On an oaken pulpit with accompanying panelling and plaque. The panelled polygonal pulpit has a moulded rail around the top, blind tracery on the two panels of each face and the access is by oaken steps with a brass handrail. The conjoined oaken panelling, L-shaped in plan, is attached to the adjacent walls and bears a brass plaque above and behind the pulpit. The nowy-headed plaque has a broad black border with exposed acorns and oak leaves and an Alisee cross on a red ground in a roundel at the head. The incised inscription is in upright capital roman lettering infilled in black with rubricated dates and selected initials.

These are the names on the War Memorial inside St. James' Church:

1. CAPTN. W. H. R. COUNT, 9th. Lancers
2. LIEUT. Ronald William GREENFIELD, 1st Btln. Rifle Brigade
3. L.CPL. E. W. HALL, Royal Fusiliers
4. PRIVATE Arthur Herbert EDWARDS, Sherwood Foresters, son of William and Louisa EDWARDS
5. PRIVATE W. EDWARDS, SherwoodForesters
6. PRIVATE Trevor SLACK, Sherwood Foresters, son of Samuel and Hannah SLACK
7. PRIVATE W. C. BEER, North Staffs. Regt.

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• Edlaston and Wyaston have a long history as separate townships, yet they form a single village.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the local Edlaston and Wyaston Parish Council concerning civic or political issues. They cannot help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases were heard at the Petty Sessional Hearings at Ashbourne's Green Man Inn every Saturday.
   
• There is an index of three Edlaston Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Edlaston" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• With the passage of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.