Blore-with-Swinscoe

'Swinscoe, Blore and the Bassetts'
by David and Martine Swinscoe
Published 1998, by Churnet Valley Books.
ISBN 1 897949 41 3

The population of Blore-with-Swinscoe parish was as follows:
1801 -- 203
1831 -- 354
1841 -- 333

"Blore Church, St Bartholomew, is an antique structure, which was repaired in 1840. It has two chapels, several monumental effigies of the Bassett family, and three ancient carved oak screens. The rectory is in the incumbency of the Rev Hugh Wood and patronage of Offley Shore, Esq."
[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]

Church of England Registers
The parish register of the parish church of St Bartholomew commences in 1558. The original registers for the period 1558-1935 (Bapts), 1558-1944 (Mar) & 1558-1990 (Bur) and Banns for the period 1784-1974 are deposited at Staffordshire Record Office.
Bishops Transcripts, 1668-1872 (with gaps 1730-32, 1766-70) are deposited at Lichfield Record Office.

A transcription of the section on Blore-with-Swinscoe from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)

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The transcription of the section for Blore-with-Swinscoe from the Topographical Dictionary of England (1859)

The transcription of the section for Blore-with-Swinscoe from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

The transcription of the section for Blore-with-Swinscoe from the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)

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The parish became part of Ashbourne Union following the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.