Shottle

You will want to use the Belper Library's Family History and Local Studies section for your research.

• The parish was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• A chapel was built here by the Duke of Devonshire, but it wasn't licensed to perform services until 1861.
   
• The Church hasn't closed, but they only hold about 5 services a year now.
   
• Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of St Lawrence Church, Shottle on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2006.
   
• Johnathan CLITHEROE also has a photograph of St Lawrence Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.

• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
   
• The Baptists had a chapel here prior to 1891.
   
• Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of a Methodist Chapel, Shottle on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2006.

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

"SHOTTLE, a township in the parish of Duffield, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 2 miles S.W. of Belper. It is in conjunction with Postern to form a township."

"POSTERN, a township in the parish of Duffield, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 4 miles N. of Derby. It is joined with Shottle to form a township."

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

Shottle lies 3 miles south of the market town of Wirksworth. The parish covers 3,808 acres.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Duffield entry from LEWIS's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831. Scroll down to find Shottle and Postern.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Shottle and Postern entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

• About 2/3rds of the land is given over to crops and pasturage.
   
• Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of a Moated Site North Of Dannah Farm on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2006.

Shottle Hall dates from 1841 and is a pleasant building in the late Georgian style, now used mainly for weddings and events.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK308490 (Lat/Lon: 53.037085, -1.542297), Shottle 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 "Sothille" in the 1086 Domesday Book.

• This place was an ancient township and parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Shottle and Postern Parish Council regarding civic and political matters, but they are NOT staffed to answer your family history questions.
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Belper petty session hearings every other week.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Belper Poorlaw Union.

A school was built in 1715 for 50 children. Average attendance in 1895 was 30.

Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the Old School on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.

Shottle does have a Womens' Institute housed in a building on the A517 Belper to Ashborne Road at Lambhouse Lane.