Hognaston

Hognaston is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at Mills Croft on every fourth Monday in the late morning.

The nearby Ashbourne Library is also an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• Court, Jeanette; Eaton, Heather, "A transcript of the memorial inscriptions in the church and churchyard of Saint Bartholomew...", Derbyshire Family History Society, 1990.

• Michael SPENCER has provided an extract of Parish Register burials for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   

• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• There is an index of names from 1841 at Liz's family history.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew.
   
• The church was built in the 12th century.
   
• The church is, naturally enough, on Church Lane.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1880-81.
   
• The church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• The church seats 250.
   
• Mike FOLKES has a photograph of St. Batholomew's Church at Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of St. Batholomew's Church tower, also on Geo-graph, taken in August, 1998.
   
• Andrew HILL also has a photograph of St. Batholomew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2012.
   
• The Northern Vicar website has some interesting information on the church.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1661 and is in good condition.
   
• The churh was in the rural deanery of Wirksworth.
   
• The Family History Library has the parish register for 1661 - 1981 and the Bishop's Transcripts for 1673 - 1872 each on microfilm.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1827.
   
• John M. has a photograph of the former Primitive Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.
   
• The Congregationalists had a chapel built here in 1882.

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

"HOGNASTON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Ashbourne, its railway station and post town, and 5 S.W. of Wirksworth. The village, which is small, is situated on a branch of the river Dove. The inhabitants are wholly agricultural. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £55.

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

The parish is in the Derbyshire Dales area. There is a modern description of the parish at Derbyshire Net.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

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

• In the 1700s and 1800s, most of the parish was dairy pasturage.
   
• The village hall was built in 1982 from the stones of houses submerged by Carsington Water reservoir, which is just to the east of the parish.
   
• Transcription of section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Hognaston by Barbarann AYARS.
   
• Large parts of the parish are in the Hognaston Conservation Area.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Red Lion Inn on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK237506 (Lat/Lon: 53.052137, -1.647885), Hognaston 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 War Memorial is a square sandstone pillar in St. Bartholomew's churchyard. The memorial is near the corner of the churchyard, west of the church and south of the path from the gate.

The War Memorial reads:

"TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF
HOGNASTON'S HEROIC DEAD
FOR GOD, KING AND COUNTRY
A.D. 1914 – 1919"

It is "probable" that Lt. Owen STAFFORD is actually Herbert Henry Owen STAFFORD, son of William Webster STAFFORD and his wife Mary, born in Hognaston in 1896.

It is also "probable" that John LAMB of the Royal Field Artillery was the lad born in Hognaston in early 1885 to Thomas and Ester LAMB. The family moved to Notinghamshire in the early 1900s.

"Ochenavestun" in the 1086 Domesday Book. Presumably from the Old English personal name of Hocca
A. D. MILLS, "A Dictionary of British Place Names", 2011, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN: 978-0199609086.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry of Ashbourne parish in county Derby. It became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• The Hognaston Parish Council meets in the village Hall.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales Disctrict Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Wirksworth petty session hearings every other Tuesday.
   
• In 1818, the Rev. Francis GISBORNE left a charity that presented £5 10s annually for woollen clothing for the poor.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish joined the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.

A parochial School (mixed) was erected here in 1871 for 60 children. Average attendance in 1890 was 42,

Admission records for 1872 - 1940 are available at the Derbyshire Record Office.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Old School House on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.