Croxall

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

Alternatively, the Lichfield Library has a Local Studies section (just in case your family wandered into Staffordshire by mistake or guile.)

• Michael SPENCER has started a list of Croxall Burial extractions for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• Geoff PICK has a photograph of St. John The Baptist Church and churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2009.

• The parish was in the Tamworth sub-district of the Tamworth Registration District.
   
• Catton Township was in the Gresley sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored around 1851.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• Geoff PICK has a photograph of Saint John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2009.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1588 for all entries and is in good condition.
   
• The National Archives holds a Tithe Map of Croxall township dated 1843. You would have to visit the Archives to see the map.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Tamworth sub-district of the Tamworth Registration District.
   
• Catton Township was in the Gresley sub-district of the Burton upon Trent Registration District.
   

"CROXALL is a parish, partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, county of Derby, and partly in the hundred of Offlow, county of Stafford, 8 miles S.W. by S. from Burton-upon-Trent. The river Meuse flows through the parish, and the Tame touches upon its boundary. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist: the living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the crown. Population of the parish, with Catton township and part of Edingale, 263."

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

The parish inlcudes the townships of Croxall and Catton and lies 116 miles north of the city of London. Catton lies north-north-east of Croxall.

Passenger rail service stopped here in July, 1928. Ben BROOKSBANK has a photograph of the now non-existant Croxall station on Geo-graph, taken in March, 1989.

Peter WOOD has a photograph of Croxall Road on Geo-graph, taken in the heart of the village in July, 2016.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Croxall from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

• In the 1086 Domesday Book Croxall is mentioned as an outlying farm of Weston-on-Trent and listed among the lands given to Henry de Ferrers by the King.
   
• The Saxons reputedly once had a fortified position on a tumulus near the church. I could find no evidence of archaeological digs.

• Croxall Hall dates from the 16th century.
   
• Chris EATON has a photograph of Croxall Hall on Geo-graph, taken in December, 1992.
   
• Mick MALPASS has a photograph of the Entrance to Catton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK197136 (Lat/Lon: 52.719698, -1.709785), Croxall 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.

• This place was an ancient parish on the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In December, 1866, the Township of Catton was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish.
   
• In 1895, the entire parish was allocated to Staffordshire for civil administration.
   
• In April, 1934, the Civil Parish was abolished and all the land amalgamated into Edingale Civil Parish (still in Staffordshire).
   
• Cattons's district governance (It's the Derbyshire part) is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Swadlincote petty seeesion hearings every other Tuesday.
   
• There is an index of a couple of Croxall Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Croxall" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Tamworth Poorlaw Union.