Norbury, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Norbury, a village and a parish in Derbyshire. The village stands on the river Dove, and on the Ashborne branch of the North Staffordshire railway, at the boundary with Staffordshire, 5 miles SW of Ashborne, and has a station on the railway. The parish contains also the hamlet of Boston, which has a post office under Ashborne; money order and telegraph office, Ellastoue. Acreage, 2298; population, 414. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value. £300 with residence. The church was restored in 1841; comprises Decorated English chancel and Tudor nave, aisle, and tower. The chancel has eight very fine three-light windows besides the E end window, all filled with old painted glass and of very beautiful tracery. The church contains two elaborate alabaster altar-tombs of the 15th century to the Fitzherbert family. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, an endowed school, and several small charities. The greater part of the parish is grass land, and dairy farming is extensively carried on. There is a cheese factory in the neighbourhood.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Norbury St. Mary | |
Hundred | Appletree | |
Poor Law union | Uttoxeter |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in conjunction with the Derbyshire Record Office, have the Church of England Baptisms (1538-1916), Marriages and Banns (1538-1932), and Burials (1538-1991) online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Norbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norbury (St. Mary))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Norbury are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Derbyshire papers online: