Ticknall or Tickenhall, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Ticknall or Tickenhall, a parish, with a village, in Derbyshire, 3 miles WSW of Melbourne railway station, and 5¼ N of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It has a post office under-Derby; money order and telegraph office, Melbourne. Acreage, 2639; population of the civil parish, 844; of the ecclesiastical, 708. There is a parish council of six members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the baronet family of Crewe. There are limekilns and market gardens. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £232 with residence. A new church was built in 1842 about 50 yards N of the site of the old one, remains of which are still to be seen, and has chancel, nave, aisles, and a tower with fine spire, which was restored in 1886. There are-Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school with £30 a year, and almshouses founded and endowed in 1772.
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 | Ticknall St. Thomas à Becket | |
| Hundred | Repton and Gresley | |
| Poor Law union | Ashby-de-la-Zouch |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Tickenhall 1626-1812, Derbyshire is available to browse online.
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 Ticknall or Tickenhall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ticknall, otherwise Tickenhall (St. Thomas à Becket))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Ticknall or Tickenhall 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: