Tissington, Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Tissington is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1819 from a chapelry in Bradbourne with Ballidon Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1658
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1658

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TISSINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Ashborne district, Derby; 4 miles N of Ashborne r. station. Post town, Parwich, under Ashborne.

Acres, 2,316. Real property, £5,157. Pop., 403. Houses, 72. The manor, with T. Hall, belonged to the Savages; passed to the Meynelles, the Clintons, the Herthulls, the Corkaynes, and others; and belongs now to Sir W. Fitzherbert, Bart. There are cotton mills.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield Value, £97. Patron, Sir W. Fitzherbert, Bart. The church is Norman.

There are a free school, and charities £23. Graves wrote here some part of his “Spiritual Quixote.”

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