Sudbury, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Sudbury, a village and a parish in Derbyshire. The village stands near the North Staffordshire railway, 5 miles from Uttoxeter, is a seat of petty sessions, and has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Derby. The parish comprises 3640 acres; population, 530. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The manor with Sudbury Hall belongs to Lord Vernon. The hall is Tudor, and was the residence in 1840-43 of the Dowager Queen Adelaide. It contains a valuable library, and was much altered and repaired in 1876. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £468 with residence. Patron, Lord Vernon. The church is ancient but good. It is chiefly in the Perpendicular style, was restored in 1873, and contains several monuments to the Vernon family, a beautiful reredos erected in 1885, and several memorial windows, one of which was inserted in 1850 by Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort to G. E. Anson, Esq., C.B., who was for many years keeper of Her Majesty's privy purse. There is a library and reading-room.
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 | Sudbury All Saints | |
| Hundred | Appletree | |
| Poor Law union | Uttoxeter |
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 Sudbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sudbury (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 Sudbury 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: