BRADLEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• By 1911, the parish was re-assigned to the Brassington sub-district of 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 church was built in the 14th century.
  
  
• Two photographs of All Saints Church can be found on the Derbyshire photos site.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1579.
  
  
• 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 sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  
  
• By 1911, the parish was re-assigned to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"BRADLEY, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 3 miles to the E. of Ashbourne, its post town. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £259, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, a small building of ancient date, is dedicated to All Saints. Bradley is one of the parishes which share in common the benefit of Gisborne's Charity, the annual produce of which is nearly £700. Bradley Park is not far from the village."

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

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Directories

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

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
• In APril, 1934, this Civil Parish absorbed 49 acres from the abolition of Sturston Civil Parish.
  

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