Tissington, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Tissington, a parish, with a village, in Derbyshire, 4 miles N of Ashborne station on the North Stafford railway. It has a post and money order office under Ashborne; telegraph office, Fenny Bentley. Acreage, 2307; population, 309. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor with Tissington Hall belonged to the Savages, passed to the Meynelles, the Clintons, the Corkaynes, and others, and belongs now to the baronet family of Fitzherbert. There is a cotton mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £96. The church is Norman, and consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, and low western tower. There is a free endowed school.
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 | Tissington St. Mary | |
Hundred | Wirksworth |
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 Tissington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tissington (St. Mary))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Tissington 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: