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ABNEY, Derbyshire

"ABNEY and ABNEY GRANGE, a joint township, consisting of these two small hamlets in the parish of Hope, and hundred of High Peak, in the county of Derby, 4 miles N.E. of Tideswell. At the time of Domesday Survey this manor belonged to William Peveril, or Peveril of the Peak."

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

Census

• Transcription of the Census for Abney of 1891 with Summary, by Rosemary Lockie,
  from microfiche as part of the FreeCEN project. Summary also includes Parishes of Foolow and Grindlow.

Directories

• Partial transcription of the section of White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, 1857, for Abney by Rosemary Lockie.

• Partial transcription of section of Directory of Sheffield and 20 miles round, 1862, for Abney by Rosemary Lockie.

Gazetteers

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

• Nigel Batty-Smith's site of United Kingdom Genealogy has a section devoted to Derbyshire, which includes a transcription of the section on Abney from Stephen Glover's "History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby".

Manors

• The Manor of Abney: its Boundaries and Court Rolls - transcription of an article published originally in the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal (DAJ, vol. 29, 1907).

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