Chilcote, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Chilcote, a township in Clifton-Campville parish, Derbyshire, on the river Mease, at the verge of the county, 3 miles from Measham station on the Ashby and Nuneaton railway, and 6½ SW of Ashby de la Zouch, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Ashby de la Zouch. Acreage, 1357; population, 105. The living is annexed to the rectory of Clifton-Campville in the diocese of Lichfield; joint yearly value, £692. The church is a small plain stone building, which was thoroughly renovated in 1885.
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 | Burton | |
Hundred | Repton and Gresley | |
Poor Law union | Tamworth |
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 Chilcote 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 Chilcote 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: