Hilton

Hilton is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at the Village Hall on every fourth Friday in the afternoon.

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

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

• St. Mary's Anglican church in Marston on Dove is the parish church of Hilton as well.
   
• There used to be a Chapel of Ease to Marston-on-Dove St. Mary's Church in Hilton village, but there are no remains of that building.
   
• Grace Church is a relatively new, modern church in Hilton. This is an Evangelical church.

• The site maintainer has not found an Anglican church in Hilton.
   
• The church would be in the rural deanery of Longford.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1841.
   
• Michael PATTERSON has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2006.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Hilton Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1847.

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

"HILTON is a small village and township, in the parish of Marston-upon-Dove, in the same hundred as Etwall, about 2 miles W. from that village. A school-house was erected here about 1655, by Arthur and Thomas. Harrison, and in 1781 the commissioners of enclosures allotted land for the support of a schoolmaster, for teaching the poor children of the parish. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture: by the returns for 1831, the number in the parish amounted to 985, of which 651 were returned for the township."

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

Hilton Brook runs down the western side of the village. Part of the brook's course has been moved to the west to bypass the village.

Passenger Rail service ceased here in 1962.

Derby Airfield lies just south-east of the village.

M. J. RICHARDSON has a photograph of the 'Black Magic' shop at the Derby Airfield on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Hilton entry under Etwall from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Hilton entry under Marston on Dove parish from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Hilton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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

M. J. RICHARDSON has a photograph of the Derby Airfield on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012. This grass airstrip is south-east of the village.

M. J. RICHARDSON also has a photograph of the Hilton Brook pub. on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the The Old Talbot on Main Street on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.

The Wakelyn is an ancient half-timbered mansion, with gables.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK251311 (Lat/Lon: 52.876491, -1.62833), Hilton 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.

During WW2 Hilton had a big American Army Camp which after the war was an ordnance depot for vehicles

Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the old railway sidings at the former Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.

The War Memorial is a sundial in the Roma's Garden on Egginton Road, on the south side of the road between Peacroft Lane and Willowfields. The memorial was unveiled in early August, 2014. There are no names on the plaque, but it is dedicated to all the men and women of Hilton, Marston and Hoon who served and fell in all conflicts.

• This place was an ancient township in Marston on Dove Civil Parish in Derbyshire.
   
• This township was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Hilton Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the South Derbyshire District Council.
   
• Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the Hilton Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017. Stop in when they are open and ask for a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• Bastardy cases were heard at the Appletree petty sessional hearings every last Thursday of the month.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act, this parish became a member of the Burton upon Trent Poorlaw Union.

• Be sure to check out the Hilton and Marston History Group website on Facebook.