Elton, Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Elton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1728 from chapelry in Youlgreave Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1691
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1682

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ELTON, a township-chapelry in Youlgreave parish, Derby; under Mouldridge hill, 1 mile NW of Winster, and 5 SW of Rowsley r. station. Post-town, Winster, under Matlock. Real property, £2,480. Pop., 491. Houses, 124. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Lichfield. Value, £120. Patrons, the Inhabitants. The church was rebuilt in 1808. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

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

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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