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| The parishes and chapelries as they were nearly 200 years ago. Extracts from an early Derbyshire history |
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Parishes P - S
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PACKINGTON
A 'large village, situated in the two counties of Derby and Leicester:
the greatest number of its houses standing in the former, and its
church in the latter county'. In the Deanery of Repington.
PADFIELD
See Glossop
PARWICH
Pevrewic* in Domesday.
In Deanery of Ashbourne, Parwich is a chapelry belonging to the parish
of Ashbourne; church dedicated to St. Peter.
'At the time of the Norman survey, Parwich was a royal manor, and
passed in the same manner as Wirksworth, till the time of Charles
I'.
*A footnote records: 'To this manor belonged then "three berewicks,
Elleshope (Alsop), Hanzedone (Hanson Grange) and Eitun
(Eaton); and five manors, Derelai (Darley), Mestesforde,
Werchefourde (Wirksworth), Esseburne (Ashbourn) and
Peurewic (Parwich), which, with their berewicks, paid in King
Edward's time thirty-two pounds, and six sectaries and a half of honey,
now forty pounds of pure silver". '
'Half a mile to the North' ... 'are some faint vestiges of a Roman
encampment or station'.
PEAK FOREST
A chapelry belonging to Hathersage and Archdeaconry of Derby. Church
under the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire.
'The village is small, containing, together with the whole liberty,
100 houses'.
The Limestone Quarries on the Peak Forest occupy an extent
of nearly half a mile in length, and two or three hundred yards in
length. Here many workmen are continually employed in boring the rocks
and shattering them into pieces by the explosions of gunpowder'.
Eldon Hole [one of the seven 'Wonders of the Peak'], a deep chasm
in the ground, is situated on the side of a gentle hill about a mile
and a half to the NW of the village.
PENTRICH
See Pentridge.
PENTRIDGE
Pencriz at Domesday. In the Deanery of Derby. Living a vicarage;
church dedicated to St. Matthew , formerly belonged to Darley Abbey;
patron - Duke of Devonshire.
'There is a Calvinists' place of worship at Pentridge'.
PHOSIDE
See Hayfield.
PILSLEY
A hamlet in the parish of Endsor and Archdeaconry of Derby, containing
about 35 houses.
PILSLEY
Also see North Wingfield.
PINXTON
A parish 'containing about 90 houses, and 425 inhabitants'.
In the Deanery of Chesterfield. Living a rectory; church dedicated
to St. Helen.
'There is a considerable porcelain factory at Pinxton, which finds
employment for several hands'.
PLEASLEY
Parish containing about 90 houses. 'As early as the time of Edward
the Second there was a church at this place: for in the tenth of that
reign, Roger Willoughby died possessed of the manor and advowson of
the church'.
In the Deanery of Chesterfield. Living a rectory; church is dedicated
to St. Michael.
Wingerworth Hall - the mansion of Sir Windsor Hunloke.
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QUARNDON
Chapelry in parish of St. Alkmund and Deanery of Derby. 'The village
contains about sixty houses, is esteemed very healthy, and is much
frequented in summer on account of its chalybeate spring'.
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RADBOURN
Living a rectory; church dedicated to St. Andrew; contains 'several
monuments erected to the memory of the Poles'.
Rabburne in Domesday; belonged to Roger of Poitou, "but
Ralph the son of Hubert claimed ... a third ... and the jury of the
wapentake found in his favour".
Parish a single hamlet in the Deanery of Derby.
RAUNSTON
'Called at the time of the Conquest Ravenstune, was then the
property of Nigel de Stafford. This village, though belonging to Derbyshire,
is totally surrounded by Leicestershire; and lies about 3 miles south
of Ashby-de-la Zouch...' In the Deanery of Repington.
RAVENSDALE PARK
A township in the parish of Mugginton.
RAVENSTONE
See Raunston.
RAWORTH
See Mellor and Glossop
RENISHAW
Hamlet in the parish of Eckington. See Eckington[1].
REPTON
'... was once a considerable town. Some historians say it was an ancient
colony of the Romans, called Rapandunum, but this assertion
cannot be proved. The earliest account ... goes so far back as the
year 660 ... '
'Repton was called by the Saxons Hreopandune and in ancient
deeds is written Reppendune, Rapandon, Repindon &c.'
'At the time of ... Domesday Rappendune was the property of
the king' ...
'Repton is a large village, situated upon the edge of a valley, through
which the Trent flows. It consists principally of one street of scattered
houses, extending from North to South, about a mile in length; and
has a brook running through it, emptying itself into the Trent. At
the lower part of the village, pleasantly elevated among the meadows,
stands the church ... Tradition says that this is the third church
that has stood on the same spot'.
'A human skeleton, of extraordinary size, was found near the site
of the old church, about the year 1687. ... Thomas Walker, a labourer
... found a stone coffin ...' containing ' the skeleton of a human
body 9 feet long, and round it 100 skeletons of the ordinary size,
laid with their feet pointing to the stone coffin'.
... 'The number of houses in Repton, as returned under the late act,
is 230: the inhabitants 1424; their chief employment arises from the
operations of agriculture'.
By his will Sir John Port of Etwall left money for a Free School
to be erected (Repton School founded 1556) and for the foundation
of a hospital at Etwall.
RIDGEWAY
Hamlet in the parish of Eckington. See Eckington.
RIPLEY
Ripelie is a 'very considerable' hamlet in the parish of Pentridge
in the Deanery of Derby with a Methodist Meeting House and a Unitarian
Chapel.
The iron works at Butterley employ a great number of hands and the
different collieries also provide employment. A great increase in
population 'of late years' is owing to the extensive coal and iron
works carried out.
RISLEY
Chapelry in parish of Sawley and Deanery of Derby. In reign of Edward
III[2] granted to Geoffrey, son of Roger Mortimer,
Earl of March. Later became property of the Lords of Sheffield, ancestors
of Duke of Buckingham. Purchased by Willoughbys of Risley in 1587
- family now extinct. The last, a daughter, was the foundress of the
free-schools at Risley.
Cavendish Bridge is a few miles to the south.
RODSLEY
(Redleslie) A hamlet in the parish of Longford. In Deanery
of Castillar.
ROSLISTON
A chapelry belonging to the parish of Walton in the Deanery of Repington.
Present chapel dedicated to St. Mary.
'It was written Redlauestun by the Norman surveyors; and in
their time there were, "a church and a priest, and one mill of
6 shillings and 8 pence, and 40 acres of meadow there, valued at 10
pounds". At that time it was the property of the king'.
The 'whole hamlet contains about 50 houses'.
ROSTON
A hamlet in the parish of Norbury.
ROWLAND
A hamlet in the parish of Bakewell and Archdeaconry of Derby, containing
(together with Calver) about 110 houses.
ROWSLEY
In the parish of Bakewell. See Great Rowsley.
 Rowsley
- Kellys 1891 Directory
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SANDIACRE
At Domesday there were here "a priest, a church, one mill, 30
acres of meadow and an equal quantity of coppice wood".
In the Deanery of Derby. Living a curacy, 'clear value £23'; patron
and proprietor - the Prebendary of Lichfield.
SAWLEY
Salle in Domesday, is an extensive parish in the Deanery of
Derby containing the chapelries of Wilne, Long-Eaton, Breason,
Risley and the hamlets of Draycott and Hopewell.
At Domesday there were "in Salle and Draycot and
Opeuuelle a priest and two churches, a mill, one fishery, and
30 acres of meadow".
Living a curacy; church dedicated to All-saints.
SCARCLIFF
Scardeclif in Domesday. Including the hamlet of Palterton Paltretune
it contains about 90 houses.
In the Deanery of Chesterfield. Living a vicarage; church dedicated
to All-saints; patron - the Duke of Devonshire.
SCARTHIN NICK
See Cromford
SCRAPTON
Is detached from the other parishes in the Deanery of Derby.
Scrotune was 'of considerable consequence' at Domesday. There
were 32 villanes and 20 boarders there. Also a priest, a church, one
mill and the site of another mill.
Church dedicated to St. Paul formerly belonged to chantery of Scrapton.
Parish consists of liberties of Scrapton and Foston.
SHARDLOW
Sedelau at Domesday. Hamlet lying within the parish of Aston.
In the Deanery of Derby. Contains 'about seventy houses'.
'A few stocking-frames are the only appearance of manufacture ...
in the parish but a considerable number of hands are employed navigating
the barges up the Trent'.
SHATTON
A township in the parish of Hope. See Hope.
SHELDON
Scelhadun. In the Archdeaconry of Derby. Church dedicated to
All-Saints. The number of houses in the liberty is about 35.
SHIPLEY
A small hamlet in the Deanery of Derby and parish of Heanor. Formerly
the seat of the Vavasours and afterwards the Strelleys. Edward Miller
Mundy is the present possessor.
(Also see Heanor)
SHIRLAND
Sirelunt in Domesday is a parish in the Deanery of Chesterfield
which includes part of the hamlets of Stretton (Streitun) and
Higham, and contains about 180 houses.
Living a rectory; church dedicated to St. Leonard.
'There was a church here as early as Edward the Second's time: for
in the first year of his reign, Reginald de Grey was possessed of
the manor and avowson of the church. This person was one of the Greys
de Wilton, who once resided at Shirland, which was the seat of their
barony, before they were styled de Wilton. The estate was sold to
Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, about Edward the Fourth's time; and rather
more than a century after, was divided among the heirs general of
that family. In the church is a monument of one of the Lords Grey,
of the time of Edward the Third, with many shields of arms[2].'
There
are two photographs of Shirland church
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Shirland
Kellys 1891 Directory
SHIRLEY
- 'at Sirelei there were, at the compilation of Domesday, a
church and a priest, and one mill'.
In Deanery of Castillar. Living ('at present') a vicarage: church
dedicated to St. Michael formerly belonged to the Monastery at Darley;
patron - the same as Brailsford (Rev. Mr. Gardiner).
'At Shirley stood, some years ago, the ancient seat of the Etendon
family' ...
Shirley
Kellys 1891 Directory
SHOTTLE
Hamlet in the parish of Duffield and in the Deanery of Derby. 'In the
northern part of this hamlet is a sulphureous spring'.
SIMONDLEY
See Glossop.
SINFIN
See Barrow.
SLALEY
A village within the parish of Bonsall.
SMALLEY
Chapelry in the parish of Morley in the Deanery of Derby. Village
is 'pretty considerable in size'. Chapel dedicated to St. John the
Baptist.
SMERRILL
A hamlet in the parish of Youlgrave. See Youlgrave.
SMITHESBY or SMISBY
On the north side of the river Trent in SE Derbyshire. 'In the time
of the Norman survey Edwin Earl of Mercia "had two carucates
of land to be taxed at Smidesbi".
Living a donative curacy 'of clear value £35'; church formerly belonged
to the priory of Derlegh; patron - Earl of Huntingdon. In the Deanery
of Derby.
'The liberty contains about sixty houses, and the inhabitants are
principally engaged in agricultural pursuits, though some of them
are employed in spinning jersey, and making stockings'.
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SNELSTON
Snelson (Snellestune) is a chapelry in the parish of Norbury
in the Deanery of Ashbourne. Chapel dedicated to St. Peter.
SNITTERTON
A township in the parish of Darley. See Darley.
SOMERSALL
'In Domesday Sumersale is a parish containing the hamlets of
Church Somersall and Herbert-Somersall.
Living a rectory; church dedicated to St. Peter; patron - the Earl
of Chesterfield. In Deanery of Castillar.
'The mansion of __ Fitzhertbert, Esq. stands in the liberty of Herbert-Somersall'.
[Somersall Hall]
SOUTH NORMANTON
Small parish in the Deanery of Chesterfield, 'including a village
of the same name. The number of houses ... is 121'; with 590 inhabitants
'who are chiefly employed in the collieries and the manufacture of
stockings'.
'Jedediah Strutt, Esq. (born 1726) the ingenious inventor of the machine
for making ribbed stockings, was a native of Normanton'.
South
Normanton Kellys 1891 Directory
SOUTH WINGFIELD or Winfield
Winefield or Winnefelt in Domesday. 'An extensive parish,
including parts of the manor of Lea, and the whole of the manor of
Ufton and Oakerthorpe; in the latter stands the parish church, though
it bears the name Wingfield church'.
Living a vicarage; church formerly belonged to Darley Abbey dedicated
to All-saints; patron - Duke of Devonshire. In the Deanery of Chesterfield.
'The whole parish contains about 800 inhabitants, who are employed
in the pursuits of agriculture, working at the stocking frame, and
at the cotton mill. The number of houses is about 170. The commons
and waste grounds of Wingfield were enclosed under an act of Parliament
in the year 1786'.
'During the reign of Elizabeth I Wingfield was, at different times,
made the place of confinement of Mary, Queen of Scots[3]'.
South
Wingfield Kellys 1891 Directory
SPONDON
Spondune in Domesday, 'at which time there were a priest, and
a church, and one mill of 5 shillings and 4 pence there'.
Living a vicarage; church is dedicated to St Mary, 'in former times
it belonged to the Hospital de Lazars at Burton, in the county
of Leicester'. In the Deanery of Derby[4].
Spondon is a large parish, including the chapelries of Stanley,
Chaddesden, and Locko. The village itself is large, containing
nearly 200 houses; and, standing in an airy, elevated and pleasant
situation, is inhabited by several genteel families'.
STADEN [near Chelmorton]
'The villages of Flagg, Blackwall, Cowdale and Staden, contain altogether
about 50 houses, and 240 inhabitants'. In the Archdeaconry of Derby.
Near here is Staden-low, an 'ancient work'.
STAINSBY
See Halt Hucknall
STANLEY
In the Deanery of Derby. Church dedicated to St. Andrew (clear value
is £10). Liberty contains 50 houses.
Stanlei, at Norman survey, belonged to Robert son of [king]
William [see Spondon].
STANTON
A hamlet in the parish of Youlgrave (Archdeaconry of Derby) containing
about 70 houses. 'Stantune is a manor, the joint property of
the Duke of Rutland and Bache Thornhill Esq, the latter of whom has
an elegant mansion here'.
Stanton-in-the-Peak
Kellys 1891 Directory
STANTON and NEWHALL
See Newhall. In the parish of Stapenhill.
STANTON-LEES
A hamlet in the parish of Youlgrave. See Youlgrave.
Stanton-in-the-Peak
- Kellys 1891 Directory
STANTON near DALE
At the 'time of the Norman survey was called Stantone and belonged
to Gilbert de Gand. The parish is not extensive'.
In the Deanery of Repington. Living is a curacy; church is dedicated
to St. Michael and formerly belonged to Dale Abbey; Mr. Thornhill is
the patron.
STANTON near Repton
[Stanton by Bridge] 'is a parish of small extent, containing
30 or 40 houses'.
In the Deanery of Repington. Living a rectory 'of the value, in the
king's books, of £6 12s. 8 ½d and yearly tenths, 13s. 3 ¼d';
church is dedicated to St. Michael; Sir Henry Crewe is patron.
STAPENHILL
Or Staepenhill. Living a vicarage; church formerly part of
the endowments of the Abbey of Burton dedicated to St. Peter. In
the Deanery of Repington.
Many of the houses which compose the village of Stapenhill, stand
within the parish of Burton'.
STAVELY
A parish 'containing the chapelry of Barlow, and the hamlets
of Netherthorp, Woodthorp, and three of the name of Hanly,
containing altogether about 408 houses. At the compilation of Domesday,
there were a church and a priest at Stavelie'.
Living a rectory; church dedicated to St. John the Baptist; patron
- Duke of Devonshire. In the Deanery of Chesterfield.
'There are in this parish some valuable beds of iron-stone; and furnaces
have been built for converting it into metal, which employ many hands'.
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STENSON
See Barrow.
STONEY-MIDDLETON
In the Archdeaconry of Derby. Church dedicated to St. Martin.
'A small hamlet, situated among grey rocks, surrounded by wild, dreary
and desolate country'.
Middleton-Dale is a narrow, winding deep chasm ... 'the rocks
are of so peculiar a shape that they never fail to make a stiking
impression on those who visit the place'.
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STOKE
A township in the parish of Hope. See Hope.
STRETTON
'.. containing about 30 houses. At the time of the Norman survey,
it was part of the land of Henry de Ferrars; and Streitun,
at that time, consisted of some arable land, and one mill; altogether
valued at 15 shillings'.
In the Deanery of Repington. Living is a rectory; church is dedicated
to St. Michael, 'its valuation in the king's books is £9 10s. 5d.
and the yearly tenths, 19s. 0s ½d'.
[Note: this entry refers to Stretton-en-le-Field]
STRETTON
Also see Shirland or North Wingfield
[Note: Stretton was divided between the two parishes]
STUBLEY
Hamlet in the parish of Dronfield. See Dronfield.
STURSTON
See Ashbourne[5].
STYDD
Township in the parish of Shirley.
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SUDBURY
'At the time of the Norman survey, there were a church and a priest
at Sudberie'.
Living a rectory; church dedicated to All-saints and formerly belonged
to the priory at Tutbury; patron - Lord Vernon. In Deanery of Castillar.
The church 'is an ancient fabric, standing in the garden near ..'
Sudbury Hall. The ancestors of the Vernon family 'have been deposited
in the church for more than two hundred years' ...
'The present proprietor' ...'of the mansion' (Sudbury Hall) is George
Venables, Lord Vernon. 'The family of the Vernons is of great antiquity'.
SUMMERLEY
Hamlet in the parish of Dronfield. See Dronfield.
SUTTON-IN-THE-DALE
[Sutton-cum-Duckmanton] 'which was in former times connected
with the living of Duckmanton. Dochemanestun, is a rectory,
and the church is dedicated to St. Mary.' The church at Duckmanton
(not standing in 1811) was dedicated to S.S. Peter & Paul.
'The liberty of Sutton contains about 23 houses and Duckmanton 53.
The inhabitants are chiefly supported by agriculture.' In the Deanery
of Chesterfield.
Sutton Hall 'has been the seat of several respectable families' ...
now the property of Thomas Kinnersley, Esq.
SUTTON ON THE HILL
'When Domesday was compiled, Sudtune was a part of the lands
of Henry Ferrers and there were a church and a priest there at that
time'.
Living a vicarage; church is dedicated to St. Michael. In Deanery
of Castillar.
SWADLINCOAT
(Siuardingescote) Hamlet in the parish of Gresley in the Deanery of
Repington. [See Gresley]
SWARKESTON
A small village. Sorchestun in Domesday.
Living a rectory, 'valued in the king's books at £5, and yearly tenths
10s'; church dedicated to St. James. In the Deanery of Derby.
Swarkeston-bridge 'stands near this place ... According to
the tradition of the neighbourhood it was built at the expense of
two maiden sisters ... The number of arches, standing at various distances
from each other, is said to be twenty-nine'.
SWANWICK
Small hamlet a little to the south of Alfreton and in the Deanery of
Chesterfield. 'Here there is a Free-school for twenty-four poor children,
who are instructed in reading and writing. The school was built' in
1740 at the expense of Mrs Elizabeth Turner.
Notes on the above:
[1] Whilst not mentioned by Davies, Renishaw Hall, the estate
of the Sitwell family, is at Renishaw. Purchased by Francis Sitwell Esq.
(d.1753) of Eckington, it had previously belonged to the family of
Wigfall.
[2] Edward II reigned 1307-27; Edward
III reigned 1327-1377; Edward IV from1461-1483.
[3] Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed in 1587.
[4] About 1890 it was discoved that the church at Spondon, having
been for a long time been called St. Mary's, had been originally dedicated
to St. Werburgh. So the name of the church was changed back to St.
Werburgh.
[5] Though not mentioned by Davies, according to the Lysons
there were 86 families in 1811 and 387 inhabitants at Sturston. It was a township
in the parish of Ashbourne.
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