Derby Hills

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2140
1861	R.G. 9 / 2489
1891	R.G. 12 / 2720

• The inhabitants attended the Anglican church at Melbourne.
   

• The Anglican Church, had there been one, would have been in the rural deanery of Melbourne.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of Trinity Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012.

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

"DERBY HILLS, an extra-parochial place in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, in the S. division of the county of Derby, 9 miles S. of Derby."

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

The village and parish are 9 miles south of Derby and 10 miles from Burton-on-Trent.

Richard WEBB has a photograph of the road and a small reservoir just west of the hamlet on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2004.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72" tells us that: "DERBY-HILLS, an extra-parochial liberty in Shardlow district, Derbyshire; 9 miles S of Derby. Acres, 270. Real property, £483. Pop., 37. Houses, 9."

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK368241 (Lat/Lon: 52.813194, -1.455459), Derby Hills 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.

• This place was an ancient extra-parochial Liberty area in Derby county.
   
• In December, 1858, this place was incorporated as a separate modern Civil Parish.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• Philip HEATH advises that this parish was dissolved and the northern part amalgamated into Melbourne Civil Parish in April 1983. The southern portion was amalgamated into Ticknall Civil Parish
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Repton petty session hearings every third Thursday.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act of 1834 reforms, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.