FENNY BENTLEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Ashbourne 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 Edmund, King and Martyr.
  
  
• The church was built in the ear;y 14th century.
  
  
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1850 and the tower added.
  
  
• The spire was added in 1866.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1604, but early years are very illegible. The pages for 1642 through 1660 are missing.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.
  
  
• There was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel built here in 1832, but by 1890 it was only occasionally used.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Ashbourne Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"BENTLEY is a small agricultural parish, in the same hundred as Tissington, about a mile and a half, south, from that village. Part of the old Manor house is still standing, and is occupied as a farm house. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, is a small structure with a low tower: the living is a discharged rectory, in the patronage of the Dean of Lincoln. The parish contained, at the last census, 308 inhabitants."

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

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Directories

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

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History

• The land has chiefly been used for pasturage.

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Politics and Government

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

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