Tissington, Derbyshire Genealogy

England Derbyshire



Parish History
Tissington St Mary is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1819 from chapelry in Bradbourne, Derbyshire Ancient Parish.

TISSINGTON (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Wirksworth, S. division of the county of Derby, 4 miles (N.) from Ashbourn; containing 427 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the road from Ashbourn to Buxton; it comprises 2262 acres by admeasurement, and borders on the romantic district of Dovedale, which abounds with striking scenery. Here is a quarry, the produce of which is used for building; and a cotton-factory, on Bradbourn Brook, employs about 130 hands. Tissington Hall was garrisoned for Charles I. by its owner, Col. Fitzherbert, in 1643. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Sir H. Fitzherbert, Bart., with a net income of £97: the impropriate tithes have been commuted for £229, and the vicarial for £3. 10. The church is partly Norman, and partly of later date, with a tower, and contains handsome memorials to the Fitzherbert family: it is beautifully situated in the midst of fine old trees, on an eminence overlooking the village. A national school for boys has an endowment of £7 per annum, and one for girls £4. In the parish are five springs of the purest water, which at a remote period are said to have furnished the only supply of the neighbourhood for several miles round.

From: 'Tincleton - Tittleshall', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 362-366. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51346 Date accessed: 28 March 2011.

Civil Registration
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Poor Law Unions
Ashbourne Poor Law Union, Derbyshire

Probate records
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