Alkmonton, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Alkmonton, a township and a village formed in 1849, with the liberty of Hungry Bentley, into a parish called the chapelry district of Alkmonton, in Derbyshire. The township lies 5 miles from Tutbury railway station, and 6 S by E of Ashborne. Post town, Longford, under Derby; telegraph offices, Tutbury and Ashborne. The area of the township is 715 acres; population of the civil parish, 60; of the ecclesiastical, 142. A chapel and an hospital were founded here in 1474 by Lord Mountjoy, but are now extinct. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £110 with residence, in the gift of the Evans family, who are lords of the manor and sole landowners. The church, which was thoroughly restored in 1878, is very good.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
| Civil parish | Longford | |
| Hundred | Appletree |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register of baptisms dates from 1850, of marriages from 1855, and of burials from 1856.
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.
Churches
Church of England
St. John (parish church)
The church of St. John, erected in 1843, chiefly at the cost of the late William Evans esq. and consecrated by Bishop Lonsdale in 1848, is a building of flint and stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: the circular Norman font, the sculptures upon which have been destroyed, was dug up in Cockshut Croft in the course of excavations on Alkmonton Old Hall farm in this parish: in 1878 the church underwent a thorough restoration, when the chancel was added, the porch rebuilt, and a bell turret added: in 1908 the chancel was restored and panelled in oak: there are memorial windows to Robert and Ann Dearden, to Sir Thomas William Evans bart. (d. 1892), and to the Jeffrey family: there are 160 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Alkmonton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Alkmonton)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Alkmonton 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: