Foremark, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Foremark, a township and a parish in Derbyshire. The township lies near the river Trent, 3 miles E by S of Wil-lington railway station, and 6½ S of Derby. Post town, Burton-on-Trent; money order and telegraph office, Bepton. Area of township, 1207 acres; population, 93; area of parish, 2133 acres; population, 192. The parish includes also the township of Ingleby. Foremark House is the seat of the Burdett family, who are lords of the manor and chief landowners. A cave called the Anchor Church got its name from being the retreat of an anchorite. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross yearly value, £102. Patron, Sir Francis Burdett, Bart.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Foremark 1663-1837, Derbyshire is available to browse online.

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 Foremark from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Foremark (St. Saviour))
• Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1899

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Foremark 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:

• Derby Daily Telegraph
• Derby Mercury
• Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald
• Derbyshire Courier