Allestree, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Allestree, a parish in Derbyshire, near Derwent river and the M.R., 2 miles N of Derby, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Quarndon. Acreage, 1163; population, 571. The chief residence is Allestree Hall, standing in a park of 100 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £245. The ancient church of St Edmund, which was rebuilt and enlarged in 1866-67, contains tombs of the Mundys, and is very good. There is a Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Allestree St. Andrew | |
| Hundred | Morleston and Litchurch | |
| Poor Law union | Belper |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Allestree 1595-1812, Derbyshire is available to browse online.
The register dates from the year 1596, and is in fair condition; there is also a volume of churchwardens' accounts from 1618.
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. Edmund (parish church)
The church of St. Edmund, an edifice of stone in the Early English style, was rebuilt and considerably enlarged in 1866-7 by the late Sir T. W. Evans bart. at a cost of about £6,000; and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a low tower at the west end containing a clock and 3 bells, dated respectively 1790, 1781 and 1711: the only parts of the old church now remaining are the south doorway, parts of the eastern wall and the tower; the doorway is a very good example of Late Norman, the unique carving of the jambs illustrating, it is supposed, the parable of the Sower: the tower is mainly Early English of the 13th century: on the south side of the chancel is a piscina with trefoiled head, and in the north wall, under a sepulchral arch, is a floriated incised cross probably coeval with the south doorway: the old font, handed over to a neighbouring incumbent, has been unfortunately destroyed: in the chancel are many monuments to the family of Mundy, of Markeaton, from 1615 to 1836, and in the north chancel chapel others of modern date to the Evans family: there are 348 sittings.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Wesleyan Chapel
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 Allestree from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Allestree (St. Andrew))
- 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 Allestree 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: