Breadsall, Derbyshire

Historical Description

Breadsall, a village and a parish in Derbyshire, on the Little Eaton Canal, with a station on the G.N.R., 2½ miles NNE of Derby, under which there is a post office; money order and telegraph office, Little Eaton. Acreage of parish, 2442; population, 571. A fine building-stone is quarried. The Priory House, a late Elizabethan or Jacobean building, occupies the site of an ancient priory founded here in the time of Henry III., of which only a few loose fragments now remain above ground. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £650 with residence. Patron, the lord of the manor. The church is Decorated English in good condition. There is a Wesleyan chapel and some small charities. Hierom, the abridger of Poole's " Synopsis" was rector, and Dr Darwin, the naturalist, was a resident.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Breadsall 1573-1837, Derbyshire, is available to browse online.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Breadsall from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Breadsall (All Saints))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.

Maps

Online maps of Breadsall 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:

• Derby Daily Telegraph
• Derby Mercury
• Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald
• Derbyshire Courier