CUBLEY, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Andrew.
  
  
• The church was built in the last half of the 12th century, but there was a church here earlier, in 1068.
  
  
• The church was repaired in 1855.
  
  
• The church tower was restored in 1874.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1566, but some early entries are illegible and some years are missing.
  
  
• The Anglican parish register includes entries for Marston Montgomery chapel up to 1660.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1874 but it was disused by 1990.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"CUBLEY is a parish (having no dependent township), in the hundred of Appletree; the village being situate about 6 miles S. from Ashbourn, which is the post town for this place. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew: the living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Marston-Montgomery annexed, in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield. The parish contained, in 1831, 471 Inhabitants."

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

The village sits astride the old Roman road known as Long Street, although there is no evidence of Roman settlement in the parish.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Cubley 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 Cubley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• The land has largely been used for dairy pasturage.
  
  
• The Village Hall was built in 1934.

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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.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Uttoxeter Poorlaw Union in Staffordshire.
  

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