West Hallam

West Hallam village is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which makes three stops every fourth Thursday afternoon.

The Library at Ilkeston is an excellent resource.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.

Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District..
   
• We have a pop-up window of the 1543 Census in a text file for your use. Most census returns prior to 1840 just list the head of household.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Wilfrid (spelling variations abound).
   
• The church was originally constructed in 1275.
   
• The church was restored in 1855.
   
• The church seats 260.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Wilfred's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2011.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538, but early years are in bad condition.
   
• We have a pop-up window of (partially) extracted Parish Register baptisms in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• And we have a pop-up window of a handful of extracted Parish Register marriages for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• Marriages at West Hallam, 1638-1812 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.

"WEST HALLAM is a small parish (having no dependent township) in the same hundred as Ilkeston, two miles S.W. from that town. It contains the parish church, which is dedicated to St. Wilfrid, and a free school, originally endowed by the Rev. John Scargill, in 1662. The living of Hallam is a discharged rectory, in the patronage (some years since) of Francis Newdigate, Esq. The parish contained, in 1831, 710 inhabitants."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The Nutbrook branch of the Erewash canal passes down the east side of the parish. The parish is about 133 miles north of London, 9 miles west of Nottingham and covers 1,360 acres. David LALLY has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013. One should stop in and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

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

• The village is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the White Hart pub. on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2012. The pub is over 100 years old.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK430415 (Lat/Lon: 52.969141, -1.361184), West 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 War Memorial, erected in 1920 outside the churchyard gate, is a Grade II structure with British Heritage.
   
• Garth NEWTON has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2002.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the War Memorials on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017.
   
• Tim ROWE captures a winter scene of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2009.
   
• The Parish Council has a photograph of the War Memorial in the Photo Gallery.
   
• During World War II there was an Army Ordinance Depot off of Cat and Fiddle Lane to the south of the village.

Corporal Frederick BANCROFT, 1st battalion Sherwood Foresters, was wounded in the Second Boer War and was mentioned in Dispatches for his bravery. On Tuesday, October 28th 1902, the parish held a reception for the Corporal with a parade down Newdigate Street to Stanley Common.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 16 Feb 1804 DIED: "Lately at West Hallam, in this county, in the 62nd year of his age, the Rev. Thomas CLARKE, rector of that place, and vicar of Normanton, in Nottinghamshire. ."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the West Hallam Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Erewash Borough Council.

• 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.

Year	Population
1801	584
1831	710
1841	677
1851	637

The Reverend John SCARGILL's Free Grammar School for boys was opened in 1664. The school was rebuilt in 1832.

In 1852 the trustees opened a similar Grammar School for girls and a school for infants opened in the parish.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Girls' Grammar School on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2017. This building is now the Village Hall.