Brassington Derbyshire Family History Guide

Brassington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1743 from chapelry in Bradbourne with Ballidon Ancient Parish. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1716
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1675

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Primitive Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BRASSINGTON, a township-chapelry and a subdistrict, in the district of Ashborne, Derby.

The chapelry is in Bradbourne parish; lies 4 miles W by N of Wirksworth, and 7 WSW of Cromford r. station; and has a post office under Wirksworth. Real property, £6,552. Pop., 718. Houses, 163. The property is subdivided.

Brassington Hall is a chief residence. Slate tiles, from a peculiar kind of grey clay, are manufactured.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £508. Patron, the Rev. J. B. Littler. The church is partly Norman; and was repaired in 1858.

There are three dissenting chapels, and a free school.

The subdistrict contains three parishes, parts of three others. and an extra-parochial tract. Pop., 4,470.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Ashbourne
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Wirksworth
  • Poor Law Union: Ashbourne
  • Hundred: Wirksworth
  • Province: Canterbury