Muggington, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire



Parish History
Muggington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire.

Other places in the parish include: Mercaston, Ravensdale Park, Weston Under Wood, and Weston Underwood.

MUGGINTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Belper, partly in the hundred of Appletree, and partly in that of Morleston and Litchurch, S. division of the county of Derby, 7 miles (N. W.) from Derby; containing, with the townships of Mercaston and Weston-under-Wood, and the hamlet of RavensdalePark, 773 inhabitants, of whom 289 are in the township of Mugginton. The manor, in Domesday Book Mogintune, was anciently held under Earl Ferrers, and in the reign of Edward I. was in moieties between the families of Chandos and Stafford. One moiety passed by a female heir to the immediate ancestor of Edward Sacheverell C. Pole, Esq.; and the Staffords' moiety has been successively in the families of Dethick, Rolleston, and Hallowes. The parish comprises 5234 acres, of which 2146 are in Mugginton township; of this latter, the soil is a gravelly marl with some limestone, and about one-third is arable. The village is well built, and pleasantly seated on elevated ground. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £9. 12. 8½.; net income, £465; patron, E. S. C. Pole, Esq., who, and Lord Scarsdale and T. Hallowes, Esq., are impropriators. The church, situated on a commanding eminence, is a large ancient structure, consisting of a nave, chancel, aisles, and tower: the interior has been lately thoroughly renovated; in the chancel is the tomb of Sir Richard Kniveton, who died at Mercaston Hall in 1400. The Rev. Samuel Pole, rector, in 1746, and Mrs. Frances Pole, in 1751, gave land now together producing about £21 a year, for education.

From: 'Muccleshell - Mundsley', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 356-359. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51163 Date accessed: 14 March 2011.

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Poor Law Unions
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Probate records
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