Wessington, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Wessington, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Crich parish, Derbyshire, 1½ mile NW of Wingfield station on the M.R., and 3½ miles NW by W of Alfreton. There is a post office under Alfreton; money order office, South Wingfield; telegraph office, Higham. Acreage of the township, 973; population, 610. The inhabitants are employed in neighbouring collieries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £164 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Crich. The church is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, and bell-turret. There are two Primitive Methodist chapels.

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

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 Wessington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wessington)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wessington 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