Stanton by Bridge

Stanton village is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at Grange Lodge every fourth Wednesday afternoon.

You will likely find the Library in Derby City very useful. They have a Local Studies and Family History Section to help you with your search.

David DIXON has a photograph of St. Michael's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

• The parish was in the Melbourne sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
   
• There are copies of the 1801 and 1821 census on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
   
• Blanche CHARLES has the 1801 census online at her website. At last check in 2019, Ancestry had not restored this website.
   
• Blanche CHARLES also has the 1821 census online at her website.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There was a church here in the 10th century.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
   
• The original church was rebuilt about 1275.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1866.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• Jerry EVANS has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2008.
   
• David DIXON has a good photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1664 for baptisms, 1676 for burials and 1679 for marriages.
   
• Michael SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• Marriages at Stanton-by-Bridge, 1664-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Melbourne.

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

"STANTON-BY-BRIDGE, so named from an ancient bridge, which crosses the Trent here, and connects this parish with that of Swarkeston, is nearly 7 miles S.E. from Derby, and about two N.W. from Melbourn. The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is partly in the Norman and partly in the decorated style of architecture: the living is a rectory, in the patronage of Sir George Crewe. The population, at the census for 1831, was 215."

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

Stanton overlooks the Trent River valley about 2.5 miles north-west of Melbourne. Review the Stanton by Bridge photographs by Andy SAVAGE before you visit.

David DIXON has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014. You should drop in and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Stanton by Bridge entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Stanton by Bridge from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stanton by Bridge to another place.

• David DIXON has a photograph of the Jubilee Oak Tree on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014. The oak was planted to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the Manor Farm on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK367271 (Lat/Lon: 52.840168, -1.456606), Stanton by Bridge 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.

• The War Memorial for the First World War is a brass plaque in St. Micheal's Church with three names on it.
   
• There is a World War II Pillbox still in the parish. Oliver MILLS has a photograph of the Pill Box on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.

• This place was 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 Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In March, 1884, a detached part of Ticknall Civil Parish was amalgamated with this Civil Parish under the Divided Parishes Act of 1882.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, but they hold periodic meetings of all the citizens to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.
   
• David DIXON has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014. Stop in when the Hall is open and request a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Repton petty session hearings every third Wednesday.
   
• CLARKE's Charity (undated) provided £21 11s. and 4d annually for apprenticing boys and for education.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built in 1862 to hold 15 children. In 1912 average attendance was 16.