ROSLISTON VILLAGE
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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rosliston like this:
ROSLISTON, a parish, with a village, in the district of Burton-upon-Trent and county of Derby; 2¾ miles W S W of Gresley r. station, and 4½ S by W of Burton-upon-Trent. It has a post-office under Burton-upon-Trent. Acres, 1, 197. Real property, £2, 556. Pop., 382. Houses, 85. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to Sir H. M. Desvœux, Bart. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £200.* Patron, the Rev. J. Sutton. The church is good, and has a spire. There are a Baptist chapel and a parochial school.
History of Rosliston
Rosliston is a small village in South Derbyshire, England close to the county boundaries of Leicestershire and Staffordshire.
It is within The National Forest and just outside the village is the Rosliston Forestry Centre. The two village pubs are called "The Bulls Head " and "The Plough Inn". The manor belonged to Earl Algar, son of Earl Leofric and Countess (Lady) Godiva. In the Domesday Book the manor was called Redlauseton[2] after it was taken by William the Conqueror,[3] and it included a church and a mill.[4] During World War II a prisoner of war camp was built near to the village to hold German and Italian prisoners. After the end of the war the camp was used to accommodate Polish servicemen. The village also includes Beehive Farm, which incorporates tearooms, fishing lakes, camping and a caravan site.
Notable residents
Ann Moore (née Pegg) - the fasting woman of Tutbury was born here in 1761[5]
The Reverend John Vallancy (1843–1906) was vicar of Rosliston for 16 years. He was aggressive towards his parishioners, sometimes threatening them with a stick. On one occasion he produced a revolver and made "ominous overtones". After villagers made an effigy of him, which was hung outside the vicarage and burnt, he was banished from the parish for 18 months by his Bishop.[6]
Church History
The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
The church was built in 1819.
The church tower and spire are from a much older chapel that stood on this site from the 14th century.
The church seats 50.
Church Records
The Anglican parish register dates from 1568.
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The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
Description and Travel
"ROSLISTON is a parish (having no dependent town-ship), in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, 4 miles and a half S.W. from Burton-upon-Trent. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt by subscription in 1827; the living is a curacy, subordinate to the rectory of Walton-upon-Trent. The parish contained, in 1831, 360 persons, being one more inhabitant than it contained, at the census taken in 1821."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
