Holbrook, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Holbrook, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish formed from Duffield parish, Derbyshire. The village stands near Coxbench railway station, 2½ miles SSE of Belper, and has a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Kilburn. The parish includes also Holbrook Moor, Bargate, and part of Coxbench. Acreage of township, 887; population, 1094. Holbrook Hall, on high ground and commanding fine views, Coxbench Hall, and Netherlea are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of South-well; net value, £196 with residence. The church was built in 1761, and rebuilt in 1841, and in 1887 it was thoroughly renovated and reseated, and is a plain neat edifice without a tower. There are Congregational and Free Methodist chapels, a convalescent home for patients from the Derby Infirmary, and three ancient charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Derbyshire | |
| Civil parish | Duffield | |
| Hundred | Appletree | |
| Poor Law union | Belper |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Holbrook from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Holbrook 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: