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BREADSALL - Description from Pigot's 1835 Directory

BREADSALL is a parish (having no dependent township) in the hundred of Appletree, though locally situate in that of Morleston and Litchurch; about three miles N.N.E. from Derby, and the like distances. S.S.E. from Duffield. The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a large and handsome edifice, with a lofty needle spire, which forms a prominent object for a considerable distance around.

On the south side of the chancel is a monument to Erasmus Darwin, a physician, botanist, and celebrated poet, who died here in 1802. The living of Breadsall is a rectory, in the patronage of the Crewe family. A free school was endowed here in 1745, by the Rev. John Clay, and in 1788 the school-room was erected, chiefly at the expense of Sir Henry Harpur.

The 'Old Hall', supposed to have been built at least seven centuries ago, and formerly the residence of the Harpur family, is used as a public-house, and has been in the possession of the present occupier, Mr. Joseph Hollingworth, and his ancestors, for upwards of two centuries; here are preserved several articles of anqtiquity, among which is a brown earthenware 'wassal cup', with the figures 1715 on it, a delf plate, made in the reign of queen Anne, and a table (in the kitchen) originally used by the servants of the 'Old Hall'.

The parish contained, by the census taken in 1821, 544 inhabitants, and in 1831, 565.

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

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