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Marston upon Dove is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire District, nine miles (14 km) southwest of Derby and two miles (3.2 km) east of Tutbury. Marston upon Dove is now generally named Marston on Dove.
Today, the parish population numbers less than 100 persons and thus its population statistics are included in those for Hilton parish, which in the 2001 UK census had 3,909, and in the 2011 UK census had 7,714. (See Hilton for further explanation.)
The village is six miles (9.7 km) northwest of Burton on Trent, close to the Staffordshire border.
History
The village is mentioned the Domesday Book of 1086 as being in the Hundred of Appletree in the county of Derbyshire, with 18 villagers, meadows, woodlands and a church. At the time of the Domesday survey, the village and surrounding land were held by the monks from the Priory of Tutbury, "a dependency of the Benedictine abbey of St. Pierresur-Dives in Normandy". The name of the village derives from Old English Mersc-tūn - a "marsh farm/settlement" (on the River Dove).
The grade I listed Church of St Mary was built in the 13th century, but the Domesday Book mentions an even earlier church. It is believed to have the oldest bell in the Diocese of Derby. The churchyard has some Commonwealth War Graves from both the First and Second World Wars.
Marston upon Dove was originally an ancient parish in the Appletree Hundred of Derbyshire, England. It included the following townships:
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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.
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