Burnaston

Miss CREWE established a reading room here prior to 1895 which had 500 volumes as a lending library.

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

• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• A small Anglican chapel of ease was erected here in 1839. This was later occupied by the Primitive Methodists. The building is now the Village Hall.
   
• The Anglican chapel of ease was served by the parent church at Etwall.
   

• Search the Anglican parish register at Etwall for your ancestors.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Longford.
   
• A Primitive Methodist Chapel existed here in 1895.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Repton sub-district of the Burton on Trent Registration District.

"BURNASTON, a township in the parish of Etwall, hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 5 miles to the S.W. of Derby. The North Staffordshire and South Staffordshire railways pass near it."

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

Burnaston is dominated by the large Toyota car manufacturing plant in the parish.

J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.

John POYSER has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007. You should stop in and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Etwall entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835. Burnaston is mentioned in that entry.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Burnaston entry under Etwall from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

See Vision of Britain - Burnaston.

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

• This parish was primarily farmland for centuries until the Toyota plant was built.
   
• There is a good history of the parish at the Burnaston Parish Council site.

• A small scale (large area) map is available at I Travel UK.
   
• Burnaston 1849 Tithe Map and Index by Occupier, provided by Paul JONES.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK292315 (Lat/Lon: 52.88058, -1.567722), Burnaston 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.

• A municipal airport was opened just south of the village in 1938, but was taken over during World War II for military training purposes.
   
• After the war, the airfield reverted to civilian use.
   
• The field was used until March, 1990, when the site became a Toyota car manufacturing plant.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the War Memorial on the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.
   

These are the names on the Village Hall War Memorial Plaque:

1. Pte. ERNEST ARTHUR ARCHER, Sherwood Foresters
2. Pte. TOM HENRY W. ARCHER, Sherwood Foresters
3. Pte. WILLIAM LABAN, Derbyshire Yeomanry
4. Pte. JOSEPH STATHAM, Sherwood Foresters

• Burnaston appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Bernulfestun".

• This place was an ancient township in Etwall parish, Derbyshire, and was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1968, this Civil Parish was enlarged by 284 acres with the abolution of Mickleover Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the Burnaston Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish joined the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	117
1841	135
1851	152
1871	163
1881	171
1891	222
1901	219
1911	239

Around 1833, Burnaston had a Day School with 9 pupils and a Sunday School with 13 pupils.

A Parochial School (mixed and infants) was built here in 1870 for 175 students.