Shardlow, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Shardlow, a village and a parish in Derbyshire. The village stands near the river Trent, 2 miles S of Draycott station on the M.R., and 6½ ESE of Derby, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Derby. The parish contains also the village of Great Wilne, and comprises 1204 acres; population, 842. There is a parish council consisting of six members and a chairman. Cavendish Bridge over the Trent, near the village, was built in 1771 at a cost of £3333. Shardlow Hall is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £370. The church is good, and consists of chancel, nave, and a pinnacled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel; also an extensive brewery and malt-houses.
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 | Wiln | |
Hundred | Morleston and Litchurch | |
Poor Law union | Shardlow |
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.
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 Shardlow 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 Shardlow 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: