BRADBOURNE, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The churchyard contained a Saxon cross from the year 800, but it had broken and the pieces were moved inside the church.
  
  
• There was a Saxon church here at the Domesday Survey of 1068.
  
  
• The church existed in 1205.
  
  
• The church was completely restored in 1846.
  
  
• The church seats 205.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1720.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"BRADBORNE, (or Bradbourne) a parish in the hundreds of Appletree and Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, 5 miles to the N. of Ashbourne. Wirksworth is its post town. It comprises the chapelries of Atlow, Ballidon, and Brassington; the township of Aldwark, and the hamlet of Lea Hall. Limestone is abundant in the district. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value with the perpetual curacy of Ballidon annexed to it, of £119, in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

The parish covers over 9,966 acres and includes the townships of Bradbourn, Aldwark, Ballidon, Brassington, and the hamlet of Lea Hall.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Bradbourne entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Bradborne from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military History

• Bradbourne is one of the Thankful Villages of England, having suffered no losses during World War I. It is the only village in Derbyshire to bear this title.
  

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Politics and Government

• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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