Chilcote

Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of St. Matthew's churchyard cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.

• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1851	H.O. 107 / 2084 and 2013
1861	R.G. 9 / 2268
1871	R.G. 10 / 3244 & 3245
1891	R.G. 12 / 2509

• The Anglican Parish Church is dedicated to Saint Matthew.
   
• The existing church was built in 1842 after the original building was demolished.
   
• The church walls were encased in white sandstone and the church thoroughly renovated in 1885.
   
• The church seats 48.
   
• Matt FASCIONE has a photograph of the Anglican Church on Geo-Graph.from March, 2008.
   
• Trevor RICKARD also has a photograph St. Matthew's Church.on Geo-graph, taken in April 2010.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.

• Louis R. MILLS has collected all the online records of burials (only a handful exist) in the Chilcote Burial File.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tamworth.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Hartshorn sub-district of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Registration District.

"CHILCOTE, a chapelry in the parish of Clifton-Campville, in the hundred of Repton, in the county of Derby, 6½ miles S.W. of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The village is situated on a rock, and was rebuilt by the late F. Robertson, Esq. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory* of Clifton Campville, in the diocese of Lichfield, in the patronage of H. J. Pye, Esq."

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

Chilcote  is on a popular biking path, so give way to the bicyclists where you should.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS has a transcription of Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, 1891.

• Colin HINSON provides a transcription of the section for Chilcote from the National Gazetteer (1868).
   
• John Marious WILSON reports in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72):

"CHILCOTE, a township-chapelry in Clifton-Campville parish, Derby; on the river Mease, at the verge of the county, 4 ½ miles S by W of Moira r. station, and 6 ½ SW of Ashby de la Zouch. Post-town, Clifton-Campville, under Tamworth. Acres, 1,325. Real property, £2,170. Pop., 129. Houses, 27, Chilcote House is the seat of the Robertsons. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Clifton-Campville, in the diocese of Lichfield."

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

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK285114 (Lat/Lon: 52.699531, -1.579697), Chilcote 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.

In the 1086 Domesday Book, the name is rendered as Cildecote, from the Old English "cottage(s) of the young men".
A. D. MIlls A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford Univ. Press, 1991.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry and Township in the parish of Clifton-Campville in Derby county. It was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This place was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In 1897 this parish was administratively placed in Leicestershire.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and instead hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the North West Leicestershire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Swadlincote petty session hearings every other Tuesday
   
• With the passage of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Poorlaw Union.