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Sinfin Moor

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Archives & Libraries

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

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Census

  • 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.
1851H.O. 107 / 2140
1861R.G. 9 / 2489
1891R.G. 12 / 2720 
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church was built in 1970 as an "eccumenical partnership". This means that Anglicans, Methodists and the United Reformed Church all hold services here.
     
  • Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of Sinfin Moor Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
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Civil Registration

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

"SINFIN MOOR, a hamlet in the township of Alvaston, parish of Derby St. Michael, county Derby, 3 miles S.E. of Derby, near the river Derwent."

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

Sinfin is probably best known today for being the main centre for Rolls-Royce, located in the north of the parish. There is also a 60-acre nature preserve on the south edge of the community.

You can see pictures of Sinfin Moor which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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History

The University of Derby is associated with the construction of "The University Science Park" to the south of Sinfin village, But the web page author has been unable to find out if it is education oriented or just an industrial facility.

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of some of the construction of the new University Science Park on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.

Peter BARR has a photograph of one of the Rolls Royce Buildings on Willmore Road on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012.

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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK354315 (Lat/Lon: 52.879806, -1.475428), Sinfin Moor which are provided by:

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Military History

  • When World War II started, an ordinace depot was built here. Some of the pillboxes and gun emplacements protecting it can still be traced.
     
  • Russ HAMER has a photograph of a Pillbox transferred from Wikimedia.
     
  • There is a broad stained-glass window inserted in a rounded-arch opening in the Rolls-Royce Learning and Development Centre on Wilmore Road. The centre is closed to the public. The window depicts a young RAF fighter pilot dressed in a blue overall, wearing a shirt and tie, mae-west lifebelt, and flying boots. The window is dedicated to the role that Rolls Royce played in World War II. There are no names of military men or women on the memorial.
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Names, Geographical

Wikipedia tells us that Sinfin is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sedenfeld.

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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient Liberty in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in 1858.
     
  • This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
     
  • In April, 1968, this parish was abolished, with one acre going to Swarkestone Civil Parish and the remaining 79 acres being amalgamated into Barrow upon Trent Civil Parish.
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

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Schools

J. THOMAS has a photograph of a School entrance on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012.