NORBURY, Derbyshire
Church History
- There was a church here at the time of the 1086 Domesday Survey.
- A second church was built circa 1179.
- The current church started construction circa 1300-1310.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Barlock.
- The church was restored in 1841.
- The church seats 200.
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Church Records
- We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials partially extracted into a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.
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Description and Travel
"NORBURY WITH ROSTON, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 5 miles S.W. of Ashbourne, its post town, and 2¾ from Rocester. It is a station on the North Staffordshire railway. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Dove, and is wholly agricultural. The living is a rectory* with the curacy of Snelston annexed, in the diocese of Lichfield."
[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 Norbury entry under Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Norbury with Roston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).