Lullington

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

In 1906 the churchyard was expanded by a quarter acre of land donated by Major_Gen. Sir H. E. COLVILE.

The headstones in the churchyard were moved around 1965 to the side of the churchyard to make maintenance of the grounds easier.

Jonathan Thacker has a photograph of All Saints' Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2021.

We have a window of Parish Register burials (partially extracted) for your review. Your additions and corrrections are welcomed.

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

• There was a priest here before the Battle of Hastings, according to the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• There was a Christian church standing here around 1300. The tower and spire date from that period.
   
• Part of the spire was rebuilt in 1766.
   
• There present church chancel was reconstructed in 1778, retaining the older tower and spire.
   
• The church seats 216.
   
• Brian WEBSTER has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1560.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.

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

"LULLINGTON is a parish, in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, 7 miles S. from Burton-upon-Trent. It is a place of considerable antiquity, and noticed in Domesday Book by the name of Lullitune, and at the time of the Norman survey had a priest, a church and a mill. The present church is dedicated to All Saints; and the living is in the patronage of the crown. Population of the parish 548, and of the township 284 of that number."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Oliver DIXON has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006. This used to be the village school and is a good place to stop in and pick up a schedule of forth-coming events.

There is no bus service to Lullington.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Lullington entry under Church Gresley from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Lullington entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Lullington from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

• Many of the villagers worked the farmland surrounding Lullington Hall.
   
• The Colvile Arms pub dates from the 16th century.
   
• Mick MALPAS has a photograph of Colvile Arms on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.
   
• Ian S. also has a photograph of the Coleville Arms on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2022.
   
• These are the proprietors listed in various directories for The Colvile Arms:

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK249129 (Lat/Lon: 52.713192, -1.632855), Lullington 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.

• Lullington has a War Memorial plaque in the Village Hall for World War Two.
   
• The Traces of War website tells us that there is one Commonwealth War Grave from World War II.
   
• There is also a Falklands Conflict memorial tree on an unamed road that runs east from Main St towards Overseal. The dedication plaque reads:

"THIS Wellingtonia Giganteum WAS PLANTED
TO COMMEMORATE VICTORY FOR BRITAIN
IN THE FALKLANDS WAR 1982 R.C."

There is a white marble memorial in All Saints' Church for Royal Navy Commander George Thwistleton COLVILLE who was lost with HMS CAMILLA (Launded in 1847) and her entire crew in a Typhoon off Japan on 9-Sep-1860.

The Great War Roll of Honour in All Saints' Church contains the following names (all returned safely):

1. Arthur Allsobrook
2. Leonard Allsobrook
3. George Allsopp
4. Samuel J. Barnsley
5. Albert J. Blood
6. Gilbert de Préville Colvile
7. Edward Fellows
8. George Groome
9. Herbert Houlding
10. Colin Hudson
11. George Leedham
12. Joseph H. Mander
13. Hugh B. D. Moore
14. John Rutland
15. John E. Sims D.C.M., M.M.
16. Charles H. Stendall
17. Rev. Arthur O. Townend
18. Harry Yardley
19. Joseph Yardley

Lullington Church also has a plaque honoring those perished in World War Two:

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
PARISHIONERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945
S. HAWKINS
P. TAYLOR
ROSE TAYLOR
THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOREVER"

Lullington churchyard has one Commonwealth War Grave from World War II for the following:

World War II:

1. Rose TAYLOR, priv., Royal Corps of Signals, age 23, died 14 Oct. 1946. Daughter of George and Clara TAYLOR.

Rose's brother Percy also died at age 23 while serving with 170 Battery, Royal Artillery; died on 2 Feb. 1942 and is remembered on the Alamein Memorial.

All Saints' Church also has a Roll of Honour for World War Two. Is is a wall-mounted, framed and glazed roll of honour executed in black calligraphy:

"In Grateful Remembrance of
The Men From This Parish Who
Faithfully Served Their King
And Country During The
Second World War 1939-1945.
And Returned Safely.
Also Our Brave Women.

1. E. Amiss
2. Margaret Carter
3. Marion Carter
4. W. Darby
5. A. Hughes
6. Mary Jacks
7. Joan Purchase
8. S. Smith
9. S. Shepherd
10. G. Taylor
11. A. Tunnicliffe
12. L. Upton

The inscription of the War Memorial plaque is dedicated to the citizens of Lullington during WWII:

"FOR FREEDOM
WAR SAVINGS CAMPAIGN 1944
PRESENTED BY THE WAR OFFICE
TO THE LOCAL SAVINGS COMMITTEE
IN APPRECIATION OF THEIR SUCCESS IN
SALUTE THE SOLDIER WEEK"

Lullitune is the name of the village recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book.

• This place was a Township and an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The parish has a Facebook page to help people connect to Lullington.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Swadlincote petty seeesion hearings every other Tuesday.
   
• Local charities amount to £2 6s. 6d. yearly.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

Ann WOOLLEY of Lullington, widow, left a Will in 1871 (made in 1865) which mentions:

1. friend John LEE Lullington, grocer
2. John PICKERING Pershore St, Birmingham
3. nephew William COTTON son of my late bro. James COTTON
4. neice Jane SLATER dau. of my late bro. James COTTON
5. Maria GREATOREX as above
6. Catherine CELLA as above
7. Thomas WOOLLEY one of the children of my late bro. in law John WOOLLEY
8. late sister Elizabeth TAYLOR
9. late sister Sarah MAYHEW
10. godchild Louisa CLARKE widow
11. cousin Elizabeth TAYLOR
12. nieces Fanny PICKERING, Mary REDGRAVE, Sarah CLARKE who are the three children of my late sister Mary WILLIAMS.
13. James LILLEY witness
14. Vainam RADFORD witness

A (mixed) school was erected here in 1845, for 50 children. Average attendance in 1890 was only 33.