Marston upon Dove, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Marston-upon-Dove, a township and a parish in Derbyshire. The township lies on the river Dove at the boundary with Staffordshire, 1½ mile NE of Tutbury station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 5 miles NNW of Burton-upon-Trent. Post town, Derby; money order and telegraph office, Tutbury. Acreage of township, 1003; population, 104. The parish contains also the townships of Hoon, Hatton, Hilton, and Hargate Manor. Population of the civil parish, 1488; of the ecclesiastical, 1400. The manors of Marston and Hatton belong to the Duke of Devonshire. The Wakelyn is an ancient, gabled, curiously-ornamented, half-timber mansion. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is Early English; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with tower and lofty spire; and contains a fine Norman font. There are in Hilton Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school founded in 1655, and now amalgamated with the board school. There is a mission church at Hatton, erected in 1887, and a bridge of five arches over the river Dove, which connects it with Tutbury.

Administration

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

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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.

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 Marston upon Dove from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marston-Upon-Dove (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

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