Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Coton-in-the-Elms, an ecclesiastical parish in Lullington parish, Derbyshire, 5 miles SW of Burton-upon-Trent. It has a post and money order office under Burton-on-Trent; telegraph office, Gresley railway station. Acreage, 1192; population, 487. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £160 with residence. The church is a building in the Gothic style, erected in 1846, and has a western tower with spire. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Lullington | |
Hundred | Repton and Gresley | |
Poor Law union | Burton-upon-Trent |
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 Coton in the Elms from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Coton-in-the-Elms)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Coton in the Elms 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: