DENBY, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• FRYAR, Michael - Some Chapters in the History of Denby. 291 pages, orig. publ. 1934, Facsimile 1994.

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Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
  
  
• Parts of the church fabric date back to 1135, but there is evidence of an older church in the parish from the 900s. The tower dates from around 1300.
  
  
• The church was enlarged in 1838.
  
  
• On 16 December, 1852, the spire was struck by lightning and had to be restored.
  
  
• The church seats 320.
  
  
• David BEVIS has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2011.
  
  
• The church has its own Website with information on opening times and events.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1577 for all entries.
  
  
• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Duffield.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built here in 1841.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"DENBY is a parish (having no dependent township) in the same hundred as Butterley, between two and three miles S. from Ripley, and about 8 N.E. from Derby. Coal and iron-works, and a pottery are in the parish. The habitations are thinly scattered to a considerable distance around the church, which is an ancient building, dedicated to St. Mary. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Earl of Chesterfield. The parish contained, at the last census (1831) 1,272 inhabitants."

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

If you are planning a visit, the parish has its own Visitors' Centre to welcome and assist you. CAUTION: The site is intended to sell you pottery.

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Directories

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Denby entry in Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

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

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Military Records

• The Denby War Memorial stands in the churchyard.
  
  
• The Military Photos website has a photograph of the War Memorial, along with a transcription of the plaques.
  
  
• Barbara MALLAR provides a transcription of the names from the Denby War Memorial.

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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