Snelston, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Snelston, a parish, with a village, in Derbyshire, on the river Dove, 1¼ mile from Clifton station on the North Staffordshire railway, and 3¼ SW of Ashbourne. It has a post office under Ashbourne; money order and telegraph office, Mayfield. Acreage, 2175; population, 287. The manor, with Snelstone Hall, belongs to the Harrison family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £324 with residence. The church is Later English, and was almost entirely rebuilt in 1825. It consists of chancel, nave, aisle, and embattled tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Snelston St. Peter | |
Hundred | Appletree |
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 Snelston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Snelston (St. Peter))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Snelston 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: