Elmton

The Creswell Library on Elmton Road near Dover Street is closed Wednesdays and Sundays. They have a Local Studies and Family History section to help you with your search.

The Elmton and Creswell Cemetery is on Skinner Street near Eyre Street in Creswell in this parish.

Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Bus Stop by the Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.

Andrew LOUGHRAM has a photograph of the Lychgate at St. Peter's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2122
1861	R.G. 9 / 2422
1871	R.G.10 / 3463
1891	R.G. 12 / 2647

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1771.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• John SLATER has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   
• David BEVIS also has a photograph of St. Peter's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.
   
• The Anglican parish church in Creswell is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene.
   
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of St. Mary Magdalene on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
   
• David KELLY also has a photograph of St. Mary Magdalene on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2015.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1599.
   
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• Transcription by Carol RYAN of Marriages 1800-1860 at Elmton.
   
• Transcription by Jon CANTRILL of Marriages 1861-1870 at Elmton.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.

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

"ELMTON, a parish, in the same hundred as Bolsover is about 3 Miles N.E. from that town. This was the birth-place of Jedediah Buxton, the great arithmetic calculator. The church here, is dedicated to St. Peter: the living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Rev. C. H. R. Rodes. The parish contained in 1821, 352 inhabitants, and at the last census (1831) the number had decreased to 340."

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

Elmton is both a village, a township and a parish in Derbyshire on the border with Nottinghamshire, 9 miles north-west of Mansfield.

The parish is 9 miles east of Chesterfield and includes the hamlet of Cresswell. There is a photograph of Elmton village on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.

Cresswell  is a larger, more substantial place than Elmton village. Andrew HILL has a photograph of the Creswell sign on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.

Nigel THOMPSON has a photograph of the Creswell railway station on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Elmton entry under Bolsover from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Elmton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Elmton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Elmton to another place.

You can see the administrative areas in which Elmton has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of The Elm Inn, Elmton, on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.

Ann B. has a photograph of Monro's, Creswell, on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK502734 (Lat/Lon: 53.255242, -1.249009), Elmton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• 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.

• Andrew HILL has a photograph of the Creswell War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
   
• The Traces of War website tells us that there are 11 Commonwealth War Graves from WWI and 3 from WWII in St. Mary's churchyard.
   
• The Traces of War website tells us that there is one Commonwealth War Grave in the Elmston and Creswell Cemetery from World War II.

There are the 14 Commonwealth War Grave burials in St. Mary Magdalene's (Creswell) churchyard:

The one man buried in Elmton and Creswell Cemetery from WWII is: Eric Leslie BUDWORTH, age 22, Royal Corp of Signals, signalman, died 18 Feb. 1944.

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Elmton with Creswell Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT available to help you with family history research.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bolsover District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Eckington petty session hearings.
   
• There is an index of over fifteen Elmton Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Elmton" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Worksop Poor Law Union.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1841.
   

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built in Creswell in 1899 for 456 children. In 1911, average attendance was 440.

A Junior School was held in the Drill Hall in Creswell.

An Infants School was built in Creswell in 1874 for 310 children.

David BEVIS has a photograph of the former Infants School on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.

The parish was building a new boys' school in 1912.