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Hungry Bentley
Hungry Bentley is a deserted medieval village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, between Uttoxeter and Derby. The site is a scheduled monument and has been called the best "depopulated settlement" in Derbyshire. The name ''Bentley'' is said to mean a clearing with bent grass. The more unusual appellation of "Hungry" is said to refer to the poor quality of the land and the local inhabitants' poor food. History Hungry Bently was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de FerrersHenry de Ferrers held a considerable number of manors including a large number in Derbyshire given to him by the King. These included Barrow upon Trent, Chellaston, Etwall, Markeaton, Normanton and Swarkestone. and was worth eleven shillings''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p. 746 Wulfgeat and Ulfkil have one carucates of land to the geld. There is land for 1 plough. It is waste. TRETRE means in the time of King Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the north-west, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the north-east, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the west and south-west and Cheshire to the west. Kinder Scout, at , is the highest point and Trent Meadows, where the River Trent leaves Derbyshire, the lowest at . The north–south River Derwent is the longest river at . In 2003, the Ordnance Survey named Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms, near Swadlincote, as Britain's furthest point from the sea. Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county. The county was a lot larger than its present coverage, it once extended to the boundaries of the City of Sheffield district in South Yorkshire where it cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenny Bentley
Fenny Bentley is a small village and civil parish located close to Dovedale in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The population in 2009 was 305 reducing to 183 at the 2011 Census. It lies two miles north of Ashbourne, on the A515 Buxton to Ashbourne Road. It is one of the most southerly villages in the Peak District. History Records show that a settlement has existed at Fenny Bentley since being mentioned in The Domesday Book in 1086, when it was known as Benedlege. Early records of The Church of St. Edmund date back as far as 1240, with much of the available historical data that provides information on the village being associated with the church and the information recorded here. The introduction of the census in the United Kingdom in 1801 means that more consistent information on the parish and how it has developed over time is now available. The population of the village has fluctuated slightly since the 19th century, with a peak in 1841 of 343 people l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Lane (Derbyshire)
The Long Lane is the medieval and modern name of the Roman road that ran almost due westwards from Derventio, the Roman fort and ''vicus'' in the suburbs of modern Derby, through Derbyshire to Rocester (where there was a Roman settlement) and Draycott in the Moors. From that point onwards the same road – no longer called "The Long Lane" – continued through Staffordshire to Chesterton near Newcastle-under-Lyme. Its destination was Middlewich (Latin ''Salinae''), from which the important city of Chester (Latin ''Deva'') was in easy reach. External links *Roman Army Built with a photograph of ''The Long Lane'' Bibliography *Roman Antiquities in Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, ''Derbyshire: a general and parochial history of the county'' (''Magna Britannia''. 1817) pp. 203-218 * M. Brassington, "The Roman roads of Derby" in ''Derbyshire Archaeological Journal'' vol. 101 (1981) pp. 88-92 * Ivan Donald Margary Ivan Donald Margary, (1896–1976) was a British historian who, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Road
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. They provided efficient means for the overland movement of armies, officials, civilians, inland carriage of official communications, and trade goods. Roman roads were of several kinds, ranging from small local roads to broad, long-distance highways built to connect cities, major towns and military bases. These major roads were often stone-paved and metaled, cambered for drainage, and were flanked by footpaths, bridleways and drainage ditches. They were laid along accurately surveyed courses, and some were cut through hills, or conducted over rivers and ravines on bridgework. Sections could be supported over marshy ground on rafted or piled foundations.Corbishley, Mike: "The Roman World", page 50. Warwick Press, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wharram Percy
Wharram Percy is a deserted medieval village and former civil parish near Malton, North Yorkshire, on the western edge of the chalk Wolds of North Yorkshire, England. It is about south of Wharram-le-Street and is signposted from the Beverley to Malton road ( B1248). Wharram Percy was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until the 1974 boundary changes. In 1931 the parish had a population of 40. The earthworks of the village have been known for many years, and outlines of house platforms were drawn onto the first Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of Yorkshire published in 1854. The site was researched each summer by combined teams of archaeologists, historians and even botanists, from about 1950 to 1990 after it was singled out for study in 1948 by Professor Maurice Beresford of the University of Leeds. The site is now in the care of Historic England (formerly English Heritage). History Although the site seems to have been settled since prehistory, the village appears to have b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Death
The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the deaths of people, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium ''Yersinia pestis'' spread by fleas, but it can also take a secondary form where it is spread by person-to-person contact via aerosols causing septicaemic or pneumonic plagues. The Black Death was the beginning of the second plague pandemic. The plague created religious, social and economic upheavals, with profound effects on the course of European history. The origin of the Black Death is disputed. The pandemic originated either in Central Asia or East Asia before spreading to Crimea with the Golden Horde army of Jani Beg as he was besieging the Genoese trading port of Kaffa in Crimea (1347). From Crimea, it was most likely carried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon
George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon PC (25 February 1854 – 15 December 1898), styled The Honourable George Venables-Vernon from 1866 to 1883, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under William Gladstone from 1892 to 1894. Early life Vernon was born on 25 February 1854. He was the eldest surviving son of Augustus Henry Venables-Vernon, 6th Baron Vernon, and his wife Lady Harriet Frances Maria Anson (1827–1898). Among her siblings were Hon. Mildred Venables-Vernon (who married Hon. Henry Augustus Stanhope, a son of the 5th Earl Stanhope).Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3999. His paternal grandparents were George Warren, 5th Baron Vernon and Isabella Caroline Ellison (a daughter of Cuthbert Ellison, MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne). His mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longford, Derbyshire
Longford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 349. It is from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Ashbourne and west of Derby. retrieved 19 April 2008 History In 1872 the parish of Longford was described as having just over 1150 people and 220 dwellings. This parish took in the settlements of Alkmonton, Rodsley, Hollington, Derbyshire, Hollington and the "liberty" of Hungry Bentley. The first three were owned by the Coke family whilst the "liberty" of Hungry Bentley was in the possession of Lord Vernon.Amenities The village is centred on Main Street (which becomes Longford Lane shortly thereafter) and has rela ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradbourne Hall
Bradbourne Hall is a country house next to All Saint's Church, within the civil parish of Bradbourne, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a privately-owned Grade II* listed building, and is not open to the public. History The church of All Saints at Bradbourne was in the ownership of the Dunstable Priory from 1278 until it was forfeited to the Crown in the 16th century at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.''History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby'' Pt I Vol 2 (1829) Stephen Glover p133. Google Books The former glebe lands of some and the advowson of All Saints were purchased by George Buxton in 1609. He replaced the old vicarage with the present house for his own occupation. Built in limestone, the three-storey entrance front has four irregular bays, three gables and irregular mullioned windows, and was the home of the Buxton/Buckston family for 200 years. George Buckston (died 1810) changed the spelling of the family surname. His son Rev. George Buckston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jackson Oakden
John Jackson Oakden (1818 – 31 March 1884), pastoralist, was an English explorer of South Australia, part of the European exploration of Australia, and a pioneer runholder of the Canterbury region of New Zealand. Early life Born in 1818 at Yeaveley, Derbyshire, England, Oakden was a son of Daniel Oakden, yeoman farmer, of ancient Bentley Hall at Hungry Bentley. He arrived in Australia in 1834 as a commercial cadet to his uncle, the banker and pastoralisPhilip Oakden(1784–1851), of Launceston, Tasmania. Through a paternal aunt, Patience Gilles, ''née'' Oakden, after whom the Adelaide suburb of Oakden was named in 1993, he was also a nephew of Osmond Gilles, first Colonial Treasurer of South Australia. After visiting England, Oakden returned to Australia aboard the ''John Renwick'', arriving at Adelaide in February 1837 as Philip Oakden's South Australian agent. Osmond Gilles, who was widowed and childless, thereafter placed Oakden under his patronage. Oakden travelled to L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaddesden
Chaddesden, also known locally as Chadd, is a large residential suburb of Derby, United Kingdom. Historically a separate village centred on Chaddesden Hall and the 14th century St. Mary's Church, Chaddesden, St Mary's Church, the area was significantly expanded by 20th-century housing developments, and was incorporated into Derby in 1968. History There is evidence of Roman settlement such as Nottingham Road, a Roman road. The old village, recorded in Domesday Book as "Cedesene",''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.1326 is situated two and a half miles east of the city. In 1086 it was a manor in the possession of Henry de Ferrers''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.748 and was worth the sum of three pounds. The focal point of the village is probably the ancient St. Mary's Church, Chaddesden, church of St Mary's. It is important as a dated example of church architecture before the advent of the perpendicular style. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmot Baronets
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Wilmot, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and two in the Baronetage of Great Britain. One creation (of Chaddesden) is extant as of 2008. The Wilmot Baronetcy, of Witney in the County of Oxford, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 1 October 1621 for Arthur Wilmot. The title became extinct on his death in 1629. He lived at Wield, Hampshire and was uncle of Charles, Viscount Wilmot to whom he left most of his estate, while also providing for Dorothy Waringe wife of Arnold Waringe, who was probably his natural daughter.'The Wild Wilmots' ''The Ancestor'' XI (1904), 1–2 17–18. The Wilmot Baronetcy, of Chaddesden in the County of Derby, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 15 February 1759 for Edward Wilmot, Physician to the Army and Physician-in-Ordinary to King George II and King George III. The third and fourth Baronets served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1803 and 1852 respectively. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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