BRETBY, Derbyshire
Description and Travel
"BRETBY, or Bradby, is a hamlet, in the parish of Repton, about a mile and a half from that village. Bretby Castle, the seat of the Earl of Chesterfield, is here; the scenery around which is very beautiful. The population returns for Bretby include those for MELTON [Ed: a.k.a. Milton] hamlet, together amounting to 325 persons."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Bretby from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This place was in the ancient Repton and Gresley Hundred (or Wapentake).