Kirk Hallam

Kirk Hallam village is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at the Queen Elizabeth Way shops every fourth Friday at noon.

The Library at Ilkeston is an excellent resource.

David KELLY has a photograph of the churchyard alongside Kirk Hallam Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2018.

Stephen McKAY also has a photograph of All Saints' churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2011.

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
   
• Some 1861 Census pages have portions of the parish in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The church was built in the late Norman period, but no precise date is recorded. The church had a vicar in 1296.
   
• The church is on Ladywood Road.
   
• The church was in a ruinous state in 1778.
   
• The church was repaired in 1844 and the porch rebuilt.
   
• The church is Grade I listed with British Heritage.
   
• The church seats 90.
   
• Garth NEWTON has a photograph of Kirk Hallam Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2004.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1660.
   
• Marriages at Kirk Hallam, 1700-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• The church is in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.

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

"KIRK HALLAM, a parish in the hundreds of Appletree and Morleston, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Derby. It is situated on a branch of the Erewash canal, and contains the township of Mapperley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, value £280. The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, stands in the hundred of Morleston. The charities produce about £6 per annum."

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

The parish is on the Nutbrook Canal, 8 miles west of Nottingham.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of the Cat and Fiddle Public House on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK457404 (Lat/Lon: 52.959031, -1.321139), Kirk Hallam 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 Traces of War website tells us that there are 6 Commonwealth war graves from World War II.

These six people buried in All Saints churchyard are:

1. Jeffrey ALDRED, srgt., RAF Vol. Rsv., died 20 Apr. 1945.
2. Herbert W. BAGGALEY, aircraftman 2nd Cl., RAF Vol. Rsv., age 22. died 7 Sept. 1941.
3. Herbert BIGGS, gunner, Royal Art., age 35, died 6 Feb. 1946.
4. Thomas CLAY, Flight Lt., RAF Vol. Rsv, age 24, died 20 June 1945.
5. Vera A. CLOWES, aircraftwoman 1st Cl., WAAF, died 1 June 1943.
6. Alfred WINDMILL, priv., West Surrey Rgt., age 19, died 27 Apr. 1942.

• This place was both an ancient township and an ancient parish in county Derby. It became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake) until 1868.
   
• In April, 1934, this civil parish was disolved and amalgamated into both Dale Abbey Civil Parish and Ilkeston Civil Parish.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Smalley (Ilkeston Court) petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.