PLEASLEY, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
- The church is of early Norman origin.
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Church Records
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Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"PLEASELEY is a village, in the parish of its name, which is in the same hundred as Bolsover, about four miles S.S.E. from that town. It was at one period of much greater consequence than it now is, having been a market town."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Pleasley 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 Pleasley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.