Marston on Dove

Hatton village and township is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at the Community Centre every fourth Wednesday in the afternoon.

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

• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Lych Gate to the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.
   
• Mike SPENCER and Jon CANTRILL have provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE has some Memorial Inscriptions at her Wishful-Thinking website, contributed by Alf BEARD.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church, on Marston Lane, has been dated to the 13th century.
   
• The church was reparired and repewed in 1816.
   
• The gallery was added in 1830.
   
• The church seats 375.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church of St. Mary on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.
   
• Mike SMITH has a photograph of Marston on Dove Church on Geo-graph, taken in May 1988.
   
• Alf BEARD has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on the Wishful-thinking website, taken in June 2008.
   
• There was a Mission Church in Hatton township.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of All Saints Church in Hatton on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.
   
• There used to be a Chapel of Ease in Hilton township and village, but there are no remains of that building.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1654 for all entries.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel in Hilton township in 1841.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel in Hilton township in 1847.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Tutbury sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
   

"MARSTON-UPON-DOVE, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 6 miles N.W. of Burton-on-Trent, and 1 mile N.E. of Tutbury Junction railway station."

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

The parish covers about 4,140 acres and lies about 9 miles south-west of Derby city. The southern border of this parish is the border with Staffordshire.

The parish contains the following townships: Hargate Manor, Hatton, Hilton, Hoon, and Marston-on-dove. Hatton township includes the village of Hatton, just southwest of Marston-on-Dove and right on the southern border of Derbyshire. Hilton township and village are just to the east of Marston-on-Dove.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Mel LOCKIE has a transcription of the Marston on Dove entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Marston on Dove entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Marston on Dove to another place.

Marston Hall is a Grade II structure with English Heritage. It dates back to 1740 and was last enlarged in 1887. The property sits on 500 acres.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Marston Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.

• Paul JONES provides a transcription of the Marston on Dove 1840 Tithe Map sorted by occupier. A very handy list of locals.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK238300 (Lat/Lon: 52.867238, -1.64803), Marston on Dove 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.

• Eric HARLOW has a photograph of the Pill Box on the bank of the River Dove (just south of the village) on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2007.  There is a second pillbox on the other side of the nearby bridge.
   
• There is a cross in the churchyard, up against a wall, that serves as a War Memorial.
   
• The Lych Gate to the churchyard has tablets on either side that also serve as a War Memorial.

There are the individuals from World War I listed as on the Lychgate Roll of Honour plaques:

Hilton:

Marston on Dove:

Hoon:

Also, those who died in the 1938 -1945 war:

Hilton:

Marston on Dove:

There is also one name listed for a local man killed in the Falkland Island Conflict: Wayne David TARBARD, KIA 1982.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 1st July, 1802: DIED: "On the 26th inst. at Marston upon Dove, in this neighbourhood, Mr. Philip HAYNE, of that place."

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar has this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 17 October, 1804: DIED: "On the 13th inst. Francis STURGIS, a poor man aged 70 years, in a fit of insanity put an end to his life by throwing himself into the river at Marston-on -Dove."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• This parish contained the townships of Marston, Hatton, Hilton, Hoon and Hargate Manor.
   
• In December, 1866, the township of Hatton was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish.
   
• In December, 1866, the township of Hilton was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish which included the small town of Marston-on-Dove.
   
• In December, 1866, the township of Hoon was incorporated as a separate Civil Parish.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Appletree petty session hearings.
   
• Appletree petty session hearings were held in the Hatton township courthouse on the last Thursday of every month.
   
• Sudbury petty session hearings were held in the Hatton township courthouse on the last Monday of every month.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built here in 1879 for 94 boys and girls.

An Infants School was built here in 1911.

A Public Elementary School (mixed and infants) was built in Hilton township in 1882.