Doveridge or Dovebridge, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Doveridge or Dovebridge, a village, a township, and a parish in Derbyshire. The village stands on the river Dove, at the boundary with Staffordshire, adjacent to the North Stafford railway, 1½ mile E by N of Uttoxeter station, has a post and money order office under Derby; telegraph office, Uttoxeter; and was once a market-town. The parish includes also the hamlets of West Broughton, Eaton and Sedsall. Acreage, 4466; population, 735. Doveridge Hall is the property of Lord Waterpark, who is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £475 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church stands on an eminence, and has a tower and spire. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Doveridge St. Cuthbert | |
Hundred | Appletree | |
Poor Law union | Uttoxeter |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Doveridge or Dovebridge from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Doveridge (St. Cuthbert))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Doveridge or Dovebridge are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online: