Boylestone

The National Archives holds a Grant and quitclaim by Stephen de GRENDONE. The document is in Latin.

The Derby City Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• The parish was in the Sudbury sub-district of the Uttoexeter Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• The church was built in the 14th century, but some sources claim it was built in 1700.
   
• The church was here in 1644 when a Royalist detachment was captured here.
   
• The church tower was added in 1844 (or 1846, depending on your sources).
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1887-88 and paved with tiles.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Geoff PICK has a photograph of St. John the Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2004.
   
• There are photographs of the church at Pictures of Boylestone.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1734.
   
• Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register.
   
• Alf BEARD has Memorial Inscriptions for St. John's Church on the Wishful-Thinking website.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1809.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1846 to replace a smaller one first built in 1811.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the Primitive Methodists chapel just west of the village on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Sudbury sub-district of the Uttoxeter Registration District.
   

"BOYLSTONE, (or Boylestone) a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 7 miles to the S. of Ashbourne, and 4 N. from Sudbury railway station. It is watered by a small stream, a feeder of the river Dove. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield, value £260, in the patronage of Robert Pool, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and has a small tower. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels in the village. There are some small charitable endowments, and a National school was built in 1845 near the church. John Broadhurst, Esq., is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The parish is 134 miles north of the city of London and 7.5 miles south of Ashbourne.

David DIXON has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Boylestone entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Boylestone entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Boylestone to another place.

Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of the Rose and Crown Public House on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014. This pub is west of the village.

Admiral Sir Arthur CUMMING (1817 - 1893) of the Royal Navy was the Lord of the Manor and owner of land in the parish. It does not appear that he ever lived in the parish. Admiral CUMMING died on 25 Feb 1893 in London, at age 75.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK182359 (Lat/Lon: 52.920212, -1.730757), Boylestone which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

During the English Civil War, 200 Royalist troops sheltered in the church overnight while on their way to Wingfield Manor. They did not set a watch and during the night Parliamentary forces surrounded the church. At dawn these forces called on the occupants to surrender and all were disarmed without loss of life.

There are two War Memorial plaques inside St. John's Church. One of these is a Roll of Honour of all who served in World War One.

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Boylestone Parish Council via the village website regarding civic or political matters. They can NOT assist you with family history searches.
   
• This parish was in the Ashbourne Rural District from 1934 until 1974.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016. Stop in when they are open and ask to see the schedule of forth-coming events.

• Bastardy cases were heard in the Sudbury petty session hearings on the last Monday of each month.
   
• There is an index of four Boylestone Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Boylestone" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Uttoxeter Poorlaw Union in Staffordshire.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) opened here in 1845 for 60 children. Average attendance in 1911 was 40.