Place:Whittington, Derbyshire, England

Whittington was originally an ancient parish in the Scarsdale Hundred of Derbyshire. It became an urban district in 1894. In 1911 there was a merger with its western neighbour, Newbold (part of the parish of Newbold and Dunston) which renamed the urban district Whittington and Newbold. However, this arrangement only lasted until 1921 when the whole area (Whittington, Newbold and Dunston, Brampton and Walton, Hasland and Tapton) all became part of the municipal borough of Chesterfield. The following description from [1] John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72] is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography). "WHITTINGTON, a parish, with a [railway] station, in Chesterfield [registration] district, Derby[shire]; on the Midland railway, 2½ miles N by E of Chesterfield. It contains Old [Whittington] village, which has a post-office under Chesterfield, the parish church rebuilt in 1863, two Methodist chapels, and an endowed school with £36 a year; New [Whittington] village, which has a post-office under Chesterfield, extensive iron and steel works, four dissenting chapels, and a national school; and [Whittington] Moor hamlet, which has the Old Revolution House, where several noblemen and others met in 1688 to plan or support the [Glorious] Revolution. "Acres: 2,640. Real property: £4,527; of which £400 are in mines. Population in 1851: 874; in 1861: 2,864. Houses: 543. The increase of population arose from extension of coal mining and iron-works. "The manor, with [Whittington] Hall, belongs to W. Fowler, Esq. Broom House is the seat of A. Lupton, Esq.; and Prospect House, of F. Swanwick, Esq. Bricks, tiles, stone bottles, and coarse earthenware are extensively made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £302. Patron: the Bishop of [Lichfield]. Charities, £52.

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Old Whittington is a village in Derbyshire, England 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Chesterfield and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Sheffield. The population of the ward at the 2011 UK census was 4,181. The village lies on the River Rother. Population according to the 1901 UK census was 9416. The parish church of St Bartholomew was restored after its destruction by fire, except for the tower and spire, in 1895. The town manufactured stoneware bottles, other earthenware and bricks. There were also coal mines and ironworks.

Old Whittington is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 on the first folio for Derbyshire where it is then spelt "Witintune".

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New Whittington is a village located in Derbyshire, England and stands to the north of Chesterfield. In the 2001 UK census it had a population of 3,919. Old Whittington is to the west and the hamlet of Whittington Moor is to the southwest. Staveley.

Revolution House, mentioned by Wilson (see above), is located between New and Old Whittington. The "Glorious Revolution" occurred in 1689 when William of Orange (King William III of England) was invited to be the next monarch after King James II was overthrown.

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.

• Wikimedia Commons map of the post-1974 districts of Derbyshire. The numbers will be linked to the districts on the WeRelate district pages.
• Wikimedia Commons often provides a map of the ancient divisions named "hundreds", but there does not appear to be one for Derbyshire. This 1832 Ordnance Survey map from A Vision of Britain through Time is not as good as those in the Wikimedia Commons series.
• Derbyshire family history societies are listed in GENUKI.
• Towns and Villages of Derbyshire and the Peak District is a locally produced website designed for tourists.