The Trent, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Trent, The, a river of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Notts, and Lincolnshire. It was known anciently as Trivona or Treonta. It ranks in regard to length as the third river of England, and drains a basin of about 4000 square miles. It rises at the foot of Mow Cop on Biddulph Moor, on the N border of Staffordshire, at an elevation of about 500 feet above sea-level, and at a distance of about 154 miles along its bed to the sea; it goes southward past Stoke-upon-Trent and Hanford, where it receives the Lyme, through Trentham Park, past Stone, Weston-on-Trent, Great Haywood, where it receives the Sowe; it goes thence south-eastward past Colwich to Kings Bromley, where it receives the Blythe; it proceeds thence east-by-aonthward past Alrewas to the boundary with Derbyshire, and there receives the Tame and the Mees; goes north-north-east-ward along the boundary between Staffordshire and Derbyshire, past Burton-upon-Trent to Newton Solney, and there receives the Dove; it intersects the S wing of Derbyshire eastward past Barrow-upon-Trent to the neighbourhood of Aston-upon-Trent; it then divides Derbyshire from Leicestershire east-north-eastward past Shardlow and Sawley to the neighbourhood of Attenborough, and receives in that run the Derwent, the Soar, and the Erewash; proceeds north-eastward to Nottingham, and there receives the Leen; it then goes through Notts eastward, north-eastward, and north-by-eastward past Shelford, Hoveringham, East Stoke, Newark, Carlton-on-Trent, and Sutton-upon-Trent, to the boundary with Lincolnshire near Dunham, and receives in that run the Dover, the Greet, and the Devon; it divides Notts from Lincolnshire northward past Torksey, Littleborough, and Gainsborough, to West Stockwith, and there receives the Idle; proceeds within Lincolnshire northward past Wildsworth, Burringham, and Amcotts, separating the Isle of Axholme from the main body of Lincolnshire; and unites with the Ouse at an impingement of Yorkshire near Alkborough to form the Humber. It is tidal to Gainsborough, and navigable for barges to Burton-upon-Trent; it is swept in its tidal reaches by a bore similar to that of the rivers entering the Solway Frith and the Bristol Channel.

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.