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STAVELEY, Derbyshire

"STAVELEY is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale, the village being about five miles E.N.E. from Chesterfield, and three S.W. from Barlborough; situate near the banks of the river Rother, and the Chesterfield canal. In the neighbourhood are mines of coal and iron-stone, with furnaces for smelting the ore; and in the village is a manufactory for painting brushes of a superior description, and brushes for machinery, belonging to a Mr. Fletcher." [There is further information for Staveley]

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

Directories Gazetteers

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Genealogy Schools

Directories

• A Description of Staveley and Directory for Staveley, Whittington and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, 1857, for Staveley by courtesy of Malcolm Godber (part of Jayne McHugh's Parish of Staveley site).

Gazetteers

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

Genealogy

• Jayne McHugh has created a superb site devoted to The Parish of Staveley, Derbyshire, to include:-
  • Census
  • Civil Registration
  • Topographical Dictionary of England
  • Whites 1857 Directory

  Very well worth a visit!

Schools

• A grammar school at Netherthorpe in Staveley was founded jointly in 1572 by the (de)Rodes, Sitwell, Frecheville and Cavendish families, although it is understood the Cavendish family later withdrew from this partnership.
  (Ref: A History of Derbyshire, Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999, et al)

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