DALE ABBEY (ex. par.), Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• In Norman times there was an Abbey of the Premonstratention Order here in Depedale or Deepdale dedicated to Saint Mary. It was reputedly the work of a man from Saint Mary's parish in Derby in 1135. The Abbey was subsequently founded in 1204.
  
  
• The Anglican parish chapel is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The chapel is a simple structure. One end used to be a public house.
  
  
• The chapel seats 100.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1684 for marriages and 1702 for baptisms and burials.
  
  
• Marriages at Dale Abbey, 1667-1813 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• The Methodists had a chapel here which was nearly destroyed by fire in 1844. It was rebuilt and in use by 1871.

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"DALE ABBEY, a chapelry in the hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, in the county of Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Derby. At Deepdale are remains of an abbey of Premonstratensian Canons, founded in Henry II.'s reign by Serlo-de-Grendon, and refounded at Stanley by Geoffrey-Saucemere, or Salicosa Mara, in 1204, in honour of the Virgin Mary; at the Dissolution its revenue was estimated at £144 12s."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Directories

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

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History

• The parish used to hold an annual feast in early November.
  
  
• In 1845 a Men's Friendly Sick Club erected a large room here. It was also used as an infant school.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch 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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