Wessington

Wessington is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes two stops every fourth Tuesday in the afternoon.

Alternatively, the Alfreton Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Christ.
   
• The church was built in 1858.
   
• The opening of the church led to this village being established as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1859.
   
• The church was renovated in 1884.
   
• The churchyard was enlarged in 1903.
   
• The church seats 208.
   
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of Wessington Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2008.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1859.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Alfreton.
   
• There were two Primitive Methodist chapels in the parish by 1891.
   
• One of the Primitive Methodist chapels has been converted to a private residence. David BEVIS has a photograph of the 1904 Primitive Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2010.

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

"WESSINGTON, a township in the parish of Crich, county Derby, 3 miles N.W. of Alfreton, and 1½ miles from the Wingfield railway station. The inhabitants are principally employed in the stocking manufacture. There is a Sunday-school licensed for divine worship. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have chapels."

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

The village is on the A615 arterial road between Matlock and Alfreton.

Alex MacGREGOR has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011. You should offer your creative and artistic talents to provide a more unique sign for the village.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

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

• There is no history of coal mining in this parish, but many men worked in mines in nearby parishes. Other residents were mostly either graziers or frame-work knitters.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of The Horse and Jockey Public House on Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
   
• J. THOMAS also has a photograph of The Horse and Jockey Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016, while being refurbished.
   
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of The Three Horseshoes Public House on Geo-graph, taken in 2008. At last report (2013), this pub was closed.
   
• Pauline E. also has a photograph of The Three Horseshoes Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
   
• You may want to attend the annual Vintage Tractor Rally in Wessington. Stephen McKAY has a photograph of The Vintage tractor rally on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2008.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK373578 (Lat/Lon: 53.116082, -1.444171), Wessington 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.

There is a photograph of the War Memorial in the churchyard and the list of names inscribed thereon at the Derbyshire War Memorial Project page.

Roger MAY has a photograph of Christ Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005. You can see the War Memorial standing by the porch.

• This place was an ancient township in Crich parish in Derby county and became a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the North East Derbyshire District Council, often listed as NEDDC.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alfreton petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built here in 1839. It was enlarged, first, in 1839 and then again in 1894 and once more in 1899.

David BEVIS has a photograph of the Village School on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2010.