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BEAUCHIEF - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

BEAUCHIEFF ABBEY, a village extra parochial, in the same hundred as Dronfield, is situate in a beautiful vale, about three miles and a half from that town. The abbey was founded between the years 1172 and 1176, for regular canons of the Premonstratensian order, by Robert Fitz-Ranulph, lord of Alfreton, in expiation for having conspired with the other knights who slew Thomas-a-Becket.

Only a small part of the chapel is now remaining, in which service is performed by the Rev. William Pashley, of Holmesfield; it is a donative, in the gift of the lord of the manor, Peter Pegge Burnell, Esq. The manor house, Beauchieff-hall, was erected in 1671, and is the residence of Broughton Steade, Esq. the nephew of the proprietor.

The population of this place has been on the decrease for the last thirty years; in 1801 it contained 102 inhabitants, and at the last census (1831), the number amounted only to 88.

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie ©1999]

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