Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire
Historical Description
Horsley Woodhouse, a village and a township in Horsley parish, Derbyshire, 3½ miles ESE of Belper, and 1 mile from Derby station on the M.R. There is a post office under Derby; money order and telegraph office, Smalley. Acreage, 628; population, 934. It was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1878. Population, 906. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £216 with residence. The church, erected in 1882, is in the Early English style. There are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
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 | Horsley | |
Hundred | Morleston and Litchurch | |
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 Horsley Woodhouse from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horsley-Woodhouse)
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Derbyshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Horsley Woodhouse 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: