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Kedleston is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley District of Derbyshire. It lies to the northwest of Derby, and nearby places include Quarndon, Weston Underwood, Mugginton, and Kirk Langley. Following the regulations of the Office for National Statistics, because the population at the 2011 UK census was less than 100, the count has been included with that of the neighbouring parish of Mackworth.
Kedleston was mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086 as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and having a mill. It was valued at 20 shillings.
The name of the village derives from "Ketel’s tūn", the homestead belonging to Ketel, from the Old Norse "Ketill".
The village is the site of Kedleston Hall, the historic residence of the Curzon family and now run by the National Trust. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom.
The parish church is All Saints, which is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Kedleston was originally an ancient parish in the Appletree Hundred of Derbyshire, England. It had no chapelries or townships.
The following description from 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).
- "KEDLESTON, a parish in Belper [registration] district, Derbyshire; on an affluent of the river Derwent, 3¼ miles SW by W of Duffield [railway] station, and 4 NW of Derby. Post town: Derby. Acres: 950. Real property: £1,918. Population: 116. Houses: 19.
- "The property, with Kedleston Hall, be1ongs to Lord Scarsdale. [Kedleston] Hall was erected in 1765, after designs by Adams; comprises a centre and two pavilions, with connecting corridors; has a frontage of 360 feet, with a portico on pillars 30 feet high; contains a grand hall, 67 feet by 42, with ceiling supported by 20 alabaster columns; contains also a very fine circular saloon, 42 feet in diameter and 55 feet high; has a rich collection of paintings, chiefly by the old masters; and stands in a beautiful park of 700 acres, containing old oaks 24 feet in girth, arches of Constantine, a lake, and a medicinal spring.
- "The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value: £155. Patron:Lord Scarsdale. The church is ancient and cruciform; has a Norman door, and a low embattled tower; and contains several ancient and splendid monuments of the Curzons.
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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