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Stretton, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Stretton, a township in Clay Cross ecclesiastical parish, Derbyshire, with a station on the M.R., 4 miles NNW of Alfreton. Post town, Alfreton; money order and telegraph office. Clay Cross. lt comprises Handley and Woolley Moor. Acreage, 1574; population, 608. There are a school church and a New Connexion Methodist chapel at Handley, and a cemetery with two mortuary chapels under the control of a burial board.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyDerbyshire 
Civil parishNorth Wingfield 
HundredScarsdale 
Poor Law unionChesterfield 

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.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stretton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Stretton are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online:

DistrictNorth East Derbyshire
CountyDerbyshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtDE55
Post TownAlfreton

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