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RISLEY, Derbyshire

"RISLEY is a small village and township, partly in the parish of Sawley, and partly in that of Sandiacre, in the same hundred as Ilkeston, about four miles, south, from that town, one and a half, north, from Breason, and about seven and a half, east, from Derby. This manor was formerly held by Sir Hugh Willoughby, the celebrated navigator, who sailed on the 10th of May, 1555, with three ships, in search of a north-east passage, and was frozen to death, with all his crew, in the January following, in the Frozen Ocean." [There is further information for Risley]

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

Church Records

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has scanned images of Marriages at Risley, 1720-1812 (from Phillmore's Derbyshire Parish Registers - Marriages, Volume 1).

Directories

• A Description of Risley has been transcribed by Heather Faulkes from Pigot's Directory of 1828.

• A Description of Risley and Directory for Ilkeston and Heanor, with the villages of Breason, Draycott, Risley, Shipley, Sandiacre, West Hallam and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

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

Schools

• A grammar school at Risley was founded in 1593 by Katherine Willoughby.
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999)

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