Walton upon Trent, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Walton-upon-Trent, a parish, with a village, in Derbyshire, on The river Trent, adjacent to Barton and Walton station on the M.R., and 4½ miles SW by S of Burton. It has a post and money order office under Burton-upon-Trent; telegraph office, Barton-under-Needwood. Acreage, 2374; population, 434. Walton Hall is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £450 with residence. The church is Early English and Decorated, and was restored in 1862; it consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, S transept, and an embattled western tower. There is an endowed school with £26 a year.
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 | Walton-On-Trent St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Repton and Gresley | |
Poor Law union | Burton |
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 Walton upon Trent from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Walton-On-Trent (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Walton upon Trent 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: