Sinfin Moor

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

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

• The Anglican parish church was built in 1970 as an "eccumenical partnership". This means that Anglicans, Methodists and the United Reformed Church all hold services here.
   
• Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of Sinfin Moor Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.

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

"SINFIN MOOR, a hamlet in the township of Alvaston, parish of Derby St. Michael, county Derby, 3 miles S.E. of Derby, near the river Derwent."

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

Sinfin is probably best known today for being the main centre for Rolls-Royce, located in the north of the parish. There is also a 60-acre nature preserve on the south edge of the community.

• Sinfin, a Description of the Village in which he lives, from Glyn WILLIAMS (Sinfin.net).

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Sin Fin entry under Barrow-on-Trent in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

The University of Derby is associated with the construction of "The University Science Park" to the south of Sinfin village, But the web page author has been unable to find out if it is education oriented or just an industrial facility.

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of some of the construction of the new University Science Park on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.

Peter BARR has a photograph of one of the Rolls Royce Buildings on Willmore Road on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK354315 (Lat/Lon: 52.879806, -1.475428), Sinfin Moor 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.

• When World War II started, an ordinace depot was built here. Some of the pillboxes and gun emplacements protecting it can still be traced.
   
• Russ HAMER has a photograph of a Pillbox transferred from Wikimedia.
   
• There is a broad stained-glass window inserted in a rounded-arch opening in the Rolls-Royce Learning and Development Centre on Wilmore Road. The centre is closed to the public. The window depicts a young RAF fighter pilot dressed in a blue overall, wearing a shirt and tie, mae-west lifebelt, and flying boots. The window is dedicated to the role that Rolls Royce played in World War II. There are no names of military men or women on the memorial.

Wikipedia tells us that Sinfin is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sedenfeld.

• This place was an ancient Liberty in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in 1858.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1968, this parish was abolished, with one acre going to Swarkestone Civil Parish and the remaining 79 acres being amalgamated into Barrow upon Trent Civil Parish.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, the parish became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of a School entrance on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2012.