BREADSALL, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There was a church here at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1056.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• This church appears to date from circa 1150.
  
  
• The church was extensively repaired in 1830 and restored in 1877.
  
  
• The church was damaged in 1914 when local suffragettes set the church on fire. The interior was gutted and the damage was repaired in 1915.
  
  
• The church seats 420.
  
  
• An ancient Priory, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was founded here in the reign of Henry III, but only fragments of the building remained by the late 1800s.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1573, but the years 1592 to 1601 are missing and some later years appear incomplete.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  
• The Wesleyan Methodist built a chapel here before 1891. This was converted to a private residence some time before 2004.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Spondon sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"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."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The parish lies 145 miles north of London and covers 2,300 acres.

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Directories

• A Description of Breadsall has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
  
  
• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Breadsall 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 Breadsall from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• There is a brief history of Breadsall and some photographs at the Derby Photos website.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act of 1834 reforms, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.
  

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