Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Sutton-on-the Hill, a township and a parish in Derbyshire, 3 miles of Etwall station on the G.N.R., 3½ NNE of Tutbury railway station, and 8 W by S of Derby. There is a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Etwall. Acreage of township, 880; population, 122; of ecclesiastical parish, 291. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £200 with residence. The church was partly rebuilt in 1863, is in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, and tower with spire.
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 | Sutton-On-The-Hill St. Michael | |
Hundred | Appletree | |
Poor Law union | Burton-upon-Trent |
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 Sutton on the Hill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sutton-On-The-Hill (St. Michael))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Sutton on the Hill 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: