BUTTERLEY, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• Schofield, R B - Benjamin Outram. Merton Priory Press, 2001.
  ISBN 1-898937-42-7.

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Census

• The hamlet was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There has been NO Anglican parish church or chapel in this hamlet.
  

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Church Records

• For parish registers, search the nearby parish of Ripley (the church on Butterley Hill road), Pentrich or Swanwic.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• This place was never a separate Civil Parish, so records would be under Pentrich Civil Parish.
  
  
• The hamlet was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"BUTTERLEY is a hamlet, in the parish of Pentrich, and hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, 3 miles from Alfreton, and about 2 from Ripley; it contains but few houses, and derives its importance from being the site of the extensive iron-works of the Butterley Company, where, and at Codnor Park, the manufacture of iron is conducted upon a scale of immense magnitude: all the heavier articles in cast iron a produced at these works, including bridges, steam engines, various kinds of machinery, and water and gas pipes."

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

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Gazetteers

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

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History

• The Midland (Heritage) Railway is located in Butterley and preserves some of the railway history of the region.

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Military History

• Sir James OUTRAM, a hero of the Indian Mutiny, was born at Butterley Hall in January, 1803.

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Politics and Government

• This hamlet was never a separate modern Civil Parish.
  
  
• Although most of the hamlet was in Pentrich Civil Parish, some portions were in Ripley and some parts in Swanwick Civil Parishes.
  
  
• This hamlet was in the ancient Morleston Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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