Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Hallam, Kirk, a township and a parish in Derbyshire. The township lies on the Nutbrook Canal, and near the boundary with Notts, 2 miles SW of Ilkeston railway station, and 8 ENE of Derby. Acreage, 755; population, 94. The parish includes also the township of Mapperley, and its post town and money order and telegraph office is Ilkeston (R.S.O.) The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £203 with residence. The church consists of nave and chancel, with porch and embattled tower, and was restored in 1844 The living of Mapperley is a separate benefice.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Kirk Hallam 1700-1837, Derbyshire is available to browse online.

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.

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 Kirk Hallam from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hallam, Kirk (All Saints))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Kirk Hallam 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:

• Derby Daily Telegraph
• Derby Mercury
• Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald
• Derbyshire Courier