Findern, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Findern, a parish formed from that of Mickleover, Derbyshire, on the Grand: Trunk Canal, and on the Birmingham and Derby railway, near the river Trent, about 1¼mile N of Willington railway station, and 5 SSW of Derby. It has a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Willington, Area, 1679 acres; population, 412. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £120. The church was built in 1864 on the site of a previous edifice, is in the Early English style, and has a nave 38 feet long, and a chancel 24 feet. There is 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 | Mickleover | |
| Hundred | Morleston and Litchurch | |
| 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 Findern 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 Findern 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: