Place:Derbyshire, England

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NameDerbyshire
Alt namesDBYsource: Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002
Derbysource: Family History Library Catalog
Derbyssource: BIAB Online (1999-2000) accessed 16 Dec 2002
TypeHistoric county, Administrative county, Modern county
Coordinates53.017°N 1.533°W
Located inEngland
See alsoGreater Manchester, Englandabsorbed a small amount of territory in 1974
South Yorkshire, Englandabsorbed a small amount of territory in 1974
Contained Places
Ancient parish
Alfreton
Ashbourne
Ashover
Aston upon Trent
Ault Hucknall
Bakewell
Barlborough
Barrow upon Trent
Barton Blount
Blackwell in Scarsdale
Bolsover
Bonsall
Boylestone
Bradbourne
Bradley
Brailsford
Brampton
Breadsall
Castleton
Chapel en le Frith
Chesterfield
Church Broughton
Clowne
Crich
Cubley
Dalbury Lees
Dale Abbey
Darley Dale
Denby
Derby All Saints
Derby St. Alkmund ( - 1898 )
Derby St. Michael ( - 1897 )
Derby St. Peter
Derby St. Werburgh ( - 1897 )
Doveridge
Duffield
Eckington
Edensor
Edlaston with Wyaston
Egginton
Elmton with Cresswell
Elvaston
Etwall
Eyam
Fenny Bentley
Glossop
Hartington
Hathersage
Heanor
Heath
Hognaston
Hope
Horsley
Ilkeston
Kedleston
Kirk Hallam
Kirk Ireton
Kirk Langley
Longford
Mackworth
Mapleton
Marston Montgomery
Marston upon Dove
Matlock
Mickleover
Morley
Morton
Mugginton ( - 1886 )
North Wingfield
Norton
Ockbrook
Pentrich
Radbourne
Sandiacre
Sawley
Scarcliffe
Scropton
Shirley
Somersal Herbert
South Normanton
South Wingfield
Spondon
Stanton by Dale
Staveley
Sudbury
Sutton cum Duckmanton
Sutton on the Hill
Thorpe
Tideswell
Trusley
Upper Langwith
Walton on Trent
West Hallam
Weston upon Trent
Whittington ( - 1921 )
Whitwell
Willington
Wirksworth
Youlgreave
Borough (county)
Burton upon Trent ( - 1888 )
Derby
Borough (municipal)
Burton upon Trent ( - 1888 )
Buxton
Chesterfield
Glossop
Ilkeston
Chapelry
Alderwasley
Alvaston
Ashford in the Water
Atlow
Barlow
Baslow and Bubnell
Beauchief ( - 1934 )
Boulton
Brassington
Brimington
Buxton
Charlesworth
Chelmorton
Chinley Bugsworth and Brownside
Codnor and Loscoe
Cromford
Derwent
Dore ( - 1934 )
Eaton and Alsop
Fairfield
Great Longstone
Hayfield
Hognaston
Holmesfield
Kniveton
Little Eaton
Mellor ( - 1936 )
Middleton by Wirksworth
New Mills
Normanton ( - 1928 )
Osmaston by Ashbourne
Osmaston by Derby
Parwich
Quarndon
Sheldon
Stanton in Peak
Taddington
Tissington
Twyford and Stenson
Wilne
Wingerworth
Yeaveley
Civil parish
Alderwasley
Aldwark
Alvaston
Arleston and Sinfin
Ash
Ashford in the Water
Ashleyhay
Ashover
Aston in High Peak
Aston upon Trent
Atlow
Ault Hucknall
Ballidon
Bamford
Barlborough
Barlow
Barrow upon Trent
Barton Blount
Beauchief ( - 1934 )
Biggin
Birchover
Blackwell in Scarsdale
Blackwell near Tideswell
Bonsall
Boulton
Boylestone
Brackenfield
Bradbourne
Bradley
Bradwell
Brailsford
Brampton
Brassington
Breadsall
Brimington
Brough and Shatton
Brushfield
Burbage
Callow (near Wirksworth)
Calow (near Chesterfield)
Calver
Carsington
Castleton
Chapel en le Frith
Charlesworth
Chatsworth
Chelmorton
Chilcote ( - 1897 )
Chinley Bugsworth and Brownside
Chisworth ( 1896 - )
Church Broughton
Clay Cross
Clifton and Compton
Clowne
Coal Aston ( - 1935 )
Codnor and Loscoe
Crich
Cromford
Cubley
Curbar
Dalbury Lees
Dale Abbey
Darley Abbey ( - 1968 )
Darley Dale
Denby
Derby All Saints
Derby St. Alkmund ( - 1898 )
Derby St. Michael ( - 1897 )
Derby St. Peter
Derby St. Werburgh ( - 1897 )
Derwent
Dethick Lea and Holloway
Dore ( - 1934 )
Doveridge
Draycott and Church Wilne
Dronfield Woodhouse ( - 1935 )
Dronfield
Duffield
Eaton and Alsop
Eckington
Edale
Edensor
Edlaston with Wyaston
Egginton
Egstow ( 1894 - 1935 )
Elmton with Cresswell
Elton
Elvaston
Etwall
Eyam Woodlands
Eyam
Fenny Bentley
Fernilee ( - 1934 )
Flagg
Foolow
Froggatt
Glapwell
Gratton
Great Hucklow
Great Longstone
Great Rowsley
Green Fairfield ( 1917 - )
Grindlow
Harthill
Hartington Middle Quarter
Hartington Nether Quarter
Hartington Town Quarter
Hartington Upper Quarter
Hartington
Hasland
Hassop
Hathersage
Hayfield
Hazlebadge
Heath
Hognaston
Hollington
Holmesfield
Hope
Hopton and Griffe Grange
Horsley Woodhouse
Horsley
Hulland Ward Intakes ( - 1934 )
Hulland Ward
Hulland
Hungry Bentley
Ible
Idridgehay and Alton
Ivonbrook Grange
Kedleston
Kilburn
Killamarsh
Kirk Hallam
Kirk Ireton
Kirk Langley
Kniveton
Lea Hall
Litchurch ( - 1888 )
Little Eaton
Little Longstone
Longford
Ludworth and Chisworth ( - 1896 )
Ludworth ( - 1936 )
Mackworth
Mapleton
Marston Montgomery
Marston upon Dove
Matlock
Measham ( - 1897 )
Mellor ( - 1936 )
Mercaston
Mickleover
Middleton and Smerrill
Middleton by Wirksworth
Monyash
Morley
Morton
Mugginton ( - 1886 )
Nether Haddon
Nether Padley ( - 1897 )
Newbold and Dunston ( - 1920 )
Newton Grange
Norbury and Roston
Normanton ( - 1928 )
North Wingfield
Norton
Ockbrook
Offcote and Underwood
Osleston and Thurvaston
Osmaston by Derby
Outseats
Over Haddon
Over Seal and Nether Seal ( 1889 - )
Packington ( 1897 - )
Parwich
Pentrich
Pilsley (near Chesterfield)
Pilsley by Edensor
Pleasley
Quarndon
Radbourne
Ravensdale Park
Ravenstone with Snibston ( - 1897 )
Rodsley
Rowland
Sandiacre
Sawley and Wilsthorpe ( - 1934 )
Scarcliffe
Scropton
Sheldon
Shipley
Shirley
Snelston
Somersal Herbert
South Normanton
South Wingfield
Spondon
Stanton by Dale
Stanton in Peak
Staveley
Stoke ( - 1897 )
Stoney Middleton
Stretton en le Field ( - 1897 )
Stretton
Sturston
Sudbury
Sutton cum Duckmanton
Sutton on the Hill
Taddington
Tansley
Tapton
Taxal ( 1936 - )
Temple Normanton
Thorpe
Tideswell
Tissington
Totley ( - 1934 )
Trusley
Tupton
Twyford and Stenson
Unstone
Upper Langwith
Walton on Trent
Walton
Wardlow
Wessington
West Hallam
Weston upon Trent
Whittington ( - 1921 )
Whitwell
Willesley ( - 1897 )
Willington
Wingerworth
Winster
Woodthorpe
Woodville
Yeaveley
Yeldersley
Youlgreave
District municipality
Amber Valley District ( 1974 - )
Bolsover District ( 1974 - )
Chesterfield District ( 1974 - )
Derbyshire Dales District ( 1974 - )
Erewash District ( 1974 - )
High Peak District ( 1974 - )
North East Derbyshire District ( 1974 - )
South Derbyshire District ( 1974 - )
Extra parochial area
Dale Abbey
Darley Abbey ( - 1968 )
Hamlet
Ash
Callow (near Wirksworth)
Chisworth ( 1896 - )
Croxall ( - 1895 )
Foolow
Nether Seal ( 1889 - )
Hundred
Appletree Hundred
High Peak Hundred
Morleston and Litchurch Hundred
Repton and Gresley Hundred
Scarsdale Hundred
Wirksworth Hundred
Inhabited place
Abbot's Chair
Abney
Acresford
Allenton
Allestree
Ambergate
Beeley
Beighton Hill
Belper
Birchinlee
Boythorpe
Breaston
Bretby
Brizlincote
Broadlowash
Burnaston
Caldwell
Calke
Castle Donington ( - 1897 )
Chaddesden
Chapel Milton
Chellaston
Chunal
Coldeaton
Combs
Coton in the Elms
Cowley
Coxbench
Derby
Donisthorpe ( - 1897 )
Dove Holes
Ednaston
Ellastone
Findern
Foremark
Gamesley
Grindleford
Hadfield
Hanson Grange
Hartshorne
Hatton
Heage
Hilton
Holbrook
Hollins
Ingleby
King Sterndale
Langley
Leam
Linton
Little Hucklow
Littleover
Litton
Longdendale
Lullington
Makeney
Mapperley
Markeaton
Matlock Bath
Measham ( - 1897 )
Meersbrook
Melbourne
Middle Handley
Milford
Milton
Mosborough
Nether Handley
Newhall
Newton Solney
Newton
Newtown
Oakthorpe ( - 1897 )
Ogston
One Ash Grange Farm
Over Seal ( 1889 - )
Owlcotes
Padfield
Palterton
Peak Cavern
Peak Dale
Peak Forest
Pinxton
Rattle
Repton
Ripley
Risley
Rosliston
Sedsall
Shardlow
Shirebrook
Shirland
Slackhall
Smalley
Smisby
Snitterton
Sparrowpit
Stanley
Stanton by Bridge
Stony Houghton
Swadlincote
Swarkeston
Swarkestone
Thornhill
Tibshelf
Ticknall
Tintwistle
Tunstead Milton
Upper End
Weston Underwood
Whitwick ( - 1897 )
Williamthorpe
Winshill
Woodhead
Wormhill
Parish
Beighton ( - 1967 )
Parish (ancient)
Burton upon Trent ( - 1888 )
Carsington
Dronfield
Ibstock ( - 1897 )
Kniveton
Norbury and Roston
Taxal ( 1936 - )
Whitwick ( - 1897 )
Registration district
Amber Valley Registration District ( 1994 - )
Ashbourne Registration District ( 1837 - )
Ashby de la Zouch Registration District
Bakewell Registration District ( 1939 - )
Belper Registration District ( 1837 - 1994 )
Chapel en le Frith Registration District ( 1838 - 1974 )
Chesterfield Registration District
Derby Registration District ( 1837 - )
Eccleshall Bierlow Registration District ( 1837 - 1935 )
Erewash Registration District ( 1997 - )
Glossop Registration District ( 1898 - 1974 )
Hayfield Registration District ( 1838 - 1938 )
High Peak Registration District (early) ( 1837 - 1838 )
High Peak Registration District (late) ( 1974 - )
Ilkeston Registration District ( 1898 - 1937 )
Matlock Registration District ( 1837 - 1838 )
Repton Registration District ( 1837 - 1974 )
Shardlow Registration District ( 1837 - 1974 )
South Derbyshire Registration District ( 1997 - )
Swadlincote Registration District ( 1974 - 1997 )
Rural district
Appleby Rural ( 1894 - 1897 )
Ashbourne Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Bakewell Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Belper Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Blackwell Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Chapel en le Frith Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Chesterfield Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Clowne Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Croxall Rural ( 1894 - 1895 )
Glossop Dale Rural ( 1894 - 1934 )
Hartshorn and Seals Rural ( 1894 - 1934 )
Hayfield Rural ( 1894 - 1934 )
Norton Rural ( 1894 - 1934 )
Repton Rural ( 1894 - 1974 )
Shardlow Rural ( 1894 - 1959 )
South East Derbyshire Rural ( 1959 - 1974 )
Sudbury Rural ( 1894 - 1934 )
Settlement
Arleston and Sinfin
Offcote and Underwood
Suburb
Beauchief ( - 1934 )
Dore ( - 1934 )
Fairfield
Ludworth ( - 1936 )
Meersbrook
Normanton ( - 1928 )
Totley ( - 1934 )
Township
Aldwark
Ashleyhay
Aston in High Peak
Ballidon
Bamford
Biggin
Birchover
Blackwell near Tideswell
Brackenfield
Bradwell
Brough and Shatton
Brushfield
Calow (near Chesterfield)
Calver
Chinley Bugsworth and Brownside
Clay Cross
Clifton and Compton
Coal Aston ( - 1935 )
Crich
Curbar
Dethick Lea and Holloway
Dronfield Woodhouse ( - 1935 )
Edale
Elton
Eyam Woodlands
Fernilee ( - 1934 )
Flagg
Froggatt
Glapwell
Gratton
Great Hucklow
Great Rowsley
Grindlow
Harthill
Hartington Middle Quarter
Hartington Nether Quarter
Hartington Town Quarter
Hartington Upper Quarter
Hasland
Hassop
Hazlebadge
Hollington
Hopton and Griffe Grange
Horsley Woodhouse
Hulland Ward Intakes ( - 1934 )
Hulland Ward
Hulland
Hungry Bentley
Ible
Idridgehay and Alton
Ivonbrook Grange
Kilburn
Killamarsh
Lea Hall
Litchurch ( - 1888 )
Little Longstone
Long Eaton
Mercaston
Middleton and Smerrill
Middleton by Wirksworth
Monyash
Nether Haddon
Nether Padley ( - 1897 )
Newbold and Dunston ( - 1920 )
Newton Grange
Osleston and Thurvaston
Outseats
Over Haddon
Pilsley (near Chesterfield)
Pilsley by Edensor
Pleasley
Ravensdale Park
Rodsley
Rowland
Sawley and Wilsthorpe ( - 1934 )
Shipley
Snelston
Stoke ( - 1897 )
Stoney Middleton
Stretton
Sturston
Tansley
Tapton
Temple Normanton
Totley ( - 1934 )
Tupton
Unstone
Walton
Wardlow
Wensley and Snitterton
Wessington
Whaley Bridge ( 1936 - )
Winster
Woodthorpe
Yeldersley
Unitary authority
Derby (city) district ( 1974 - )
Derby
Unknown
Beard
Bearwardcote
Bolehill
Bondary
Castle Gresley
Catton
Cauldwell
Church Gresley
Derby Hills
Dinting Vale
Dinting
Drakelow
Furnace
Furness Vale
Green Bank
Hallam Fields
Hartshorn
Higham
Highlow
Holme
Hoon
Hope Woodlands
Hopwell
Kings Sterndale
Lea Brooks
Long Lane
Low Leighton
Offerton
Ridgeway
Scarcliff
Sinfin Moor
Smerril
Stanley Common
Stanton and Newhall
Stanton
Stapenhill
Stonebroom
Stonegravels
Trent
Trentlock
Whestone
Whitfield
Urban district
Alfreton
Alvaston
Ashbourne
Bakewell
Baslow and Bubnell
Belper
Bolsover
Bonsall
Brampton and Walton ( 1894 - 1935 )
Clay Cross
Dronfield
Fairfield
Heanor
Ibstock ( - 1897 )
Long Eaton
Matlock
New Mills
Newbold and Dunston ( - 1920 )
Ripley
Wensley and Snitterton
Whaley Bridge ( 1936 - )
Wirksworth
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: The introduction to the following article describes the organization of Derbyshire since 1974 when there was a nationwide reorganization of English counties and the municipalities within them.


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Derbyshire (; or ) is a county in the East Midlands of England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the north-west, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the north-east, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the west and south-west and Cheshire to the west. Kinder Scout, at , is the highest point and Trent Meadows, where the River Trent leaves Derbyshire, the lowest at . The north–south River Derwent is the longest river at . In 2003, the Ordnance Survey named Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms, near Swadlincote, as Britain's furthest point from the sea. Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county. The non-metropolitan county has 30 towns of 10,000–100,000 inhabitants, but much sparsely populated farming upland.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Derbyshire. The sub-articles entitled Economics and Governance cover time from the 13th century onward. The History section deals with the earlier eras.

Research Tips

  • Derbyshire Record Office website
  • British History Online (Victoria County Histories) does not appear to cover Derbyshire geographically. A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2, edited by William Page is a part-volume covering the religious houses of the county. No further volumes have been found.
  • GENUKI main page for Derbyshire which provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851 which gives the registration district and wapentake for each parish, together with statistics from the 1851 census for the area.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Derbyshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
  • For a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from the following selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile. Sections of the 1900 map showing parish boundaries only have been reproduced on some (but not all) parish pages here in WeRelate.
  • Map of Derbyshire illustrating urban and rural districts in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown.
  • Map of Derbyshire urban and rural districts in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. This is not a repeat of the first map. There were some changes in urban and rural district structure in the 1930s.
  • Ordnance Survey map of Derbyshire for 1967 This is the last in this series and was made while Derbyshire was experimenting with the non-metropolitan district structure adopted in 1974. It is a much cleaner map for reading the names of the civil parishes, but the smaller villages are no longer visible.
These are only three of the series of maps to be found in A Vision of Britain through Time.
This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Derbyshire. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.