Wilne

The Long Eaton Library has some records for Wilne that you can access. For example, the census returns for 1841 to 1901.

• The parish was in the Spondon 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 & 2141
1861	R.G. 9 / 2491 & 2493
1881	R.G. 11 / 3391
1891	R.G. 12 / 2726

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Chad.
   
• The church was built in the 13th century.
   
• The church was across the River Derwent from the village. A small hamlet arose around the church and is known as Church Wilne.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of St. Chad's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.
   
• This church seats 350.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1540 and is in good condition.
   
• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has a typescript of the Wilne Parish Register for 1540 thru 1723, with a copy on microfilm 0824099.
   
• The Family History Library has the Bishop's Transcripts for 1675 thru 1882 on microfilm 0428952 for hire.
   
• Marriages at Wilne, 1540-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
   
• The New Connection Methodists built a small brick chapel here in 1816.

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

"WILNE, a parish in the county of Derby, 7 miles S.E. of Derby, and 4 S.W. of the Sawley railway station."

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

The parish is on the border with Leicestershire. The River Derwent runs past the village. The parish, often listed as Great Wilne or Church Wilne, contains the hamlet and township of Hopwell; Church Wilne is actually a hamlet in the the parish.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Draycott entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835). Wilne is mentioned in this entry.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Wilne entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

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

• The 'The Derbyshire Village Book' tells us: "The Romans started it all. In order to get their Derbyshire lead from Derby to the river Trent at Trent Lock, they built a straight road between the two. A small community developed along it about six miles from Derby. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Draicott or Dry Cote. About a mile to the south by the river Derwent there was a settlement which we now call Wilne, the original name meaning `a clearing in the willows' which sounds a wet and marshy place. A church was recorded there in AD 822 dedicated to St Chad."
   
• Wilne is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as one village.
   
• In the 1700s and 1800s the parish had a number of cotton mills which produced cloth.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK447315 (Lat/Lon: 52.879116, -1.337246), Wilne 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 men who fell in the World Wars are remembered at a shared War Memorial in Draycott.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this notice from the Derby Mercury of 15 August 1804: "MARRIED: On Monday se'nnight, at Wiln, in this county, Mr. PORTER, of Borrowash, to Miss LANCASHIRE, of the former place."

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 23 December, 1802: DIED: "On Saturday last, after a lingering illness which he bore with true fortitude, Mr. Joseph THACKER, of Wiln Mills, in this county, aged 56.- His loss will be ever regretted by his family as a husband and a father, and by a numerous circle of acquaintance as a friend."

• This place was an ancient Township in Derbyshire and it was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish along with Draycott in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the joint Shardlow and Great Wilne Parish Council.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

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

A Board School was erected in Draycott in 1854, for 330 children.