Hilton, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Hilton, a township in Marston-upon-Dove parish, Derbyshire, on a branch of the river Dove, 3 miles NW of Egginton railway station, and 5 N of Burton-upon-Trent. It has a post and money order office under Derby; telegraph office, Etwall. Acreage, 1761; population, 805. The Wakelyn is an ancient gabled mansion, half-timbered, and curiously ornamented. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school which dates from 1655.
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 | Marston upon Dove | |
| Hundred | Appletree | |
| 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 Hilton 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 Hilton 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: