HORSLEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was the centre of 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 Clement.
  
  
• The church was built in the 13th century.
  
  
• The church seats 350.
  
  
• Rob BRADFORD has a photograph of St. Clement's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
  
  
• The church has a websitebut, at last look, it included no history.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
  
  
• Marriages at Horsley, 1558-1812 are available in Nigel Batty-Smith's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
  
  
• 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 Buxton.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"HORSLEY, a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 6 miles N.E. of Derby, its post town, and 2 N.E. of Duffield railway station. The parish, which is considerable, is situated near the river Derwent, and on the Derby and Alfreton road. It contains the villages of Horsley, Horsley Woodhouse, and Kilburne. Here formerly stood a castle, built by Ralph-de-Burun. The surface is diversified with hill and dale, and the soil is in general light. The Little Eaton railway passes through the parish."

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

John POYSER has a photograph of the Horsely Fountain on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.

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Directories

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

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Newspapers

• Some Newspaper Articles mentioning Horsley. One only at present, reporting on Coronation Festivities in 1902.

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

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Social Life and Customs

• Horsley - Some Local Events, 1838-1893, contributed by Trevor Owen. Added 23 Jun 2002.

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