Unstone

Unstone is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop on Sheffield Road every fourth Monday in the mid afternoon.

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

Many residents of Unstone would be buried in the Dronfield Cemetery after 1877.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church was built as a chapel of ease to Dronfield in 1920, but became a district church in 1925.
   
• Saint Mary's now serves both the Anglican community and the Methodist community.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.

• A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1847, enlarged in 1904, but has since closed.
   
• A Primitive Methodist chapel was built here in 1874 but has since closed.
   
• Apperknowle Methodist Church opened here in 1880 on High Street as a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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

"UNSTONE, a township in the parish of Dronfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 1 mile S.E. of Dronfield."

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

The River Drone runs through the parish. The Unstone Line is a nature preserve along the old railway line through the parish. Unstone Green is a large portion of Unstone immediately to the south of the original hamlet. built as a housing estate in the 1940s. Take the B6057 secondary road out of Chesterfield to reach Unstone.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Unstone entry under Dronfield from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.

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

• This place was listed as "Unston" until 1908 when the "e" was added to create "Unstone".
   
• A railway station opened here in 1870, but passenger service ceased in 1951. Ten years later, the station closed for all rail service.
   
• The parish holds an annual Well Dressing around the middle of each July.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of The Horse and Jockey pub at Unstone Green on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   
• These are the names associated with the Horse and Jockey P. H. in various directories (spelled as listed in the source):
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK374777 (Lat/Lon: 53.294587, -1.44057), Unstone 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 stands in a traffic island on Crow Lane.
   
• Andrew LOUGHRAN has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.
   
• Neil THEASBY also has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the War Memorial in the snow on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2013.

• This place was a hamlet and township in Dronfield parish in Derbyshire and became a modern Civil Parish in Decmber, 1866.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Unstone Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT going to do family history work for you.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Eckington petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment reforms, this parish became part of the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.

In 1833 a school with a residence for the master was erected by George MOORE. The school would hold about 70 students and average attendance was 50 in 1857.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was erected here in 1873 for 295 children. 1911 attendance averaged 223.

Andrew LOUGHRAN has a photograph of Unstone School near Chesterfield on Crow Lane on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2006.

St Mary’s Infant School is located on Crow Lane.

Unstone Junior School is on the Main Road.