Brizlincote is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011, it had a ...

East Staffordshire East Staffordshire is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire in England. It has two main towns: Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter. Villages in the area include Abbots Bromley, Stretton, Tutbury, Barton-under-Needwood, ...

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. Formerly farmland and a manor lying in Derbyshire, it was added to the

municipal borough Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in S ...

of Burton by the

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and formally transferred to Staffordshire in 1894. It was developed for housing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The area of the parish was previously considered part of the (unparished) adjoining areas of

Stapenhill Stapenhill is a suburban village and civil parish in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom, UK. It was a small village owned by Nigel of Stafford as far back as 1086, however, this ancient parish area has long since been surroun ...

and

Winshill Winshill is an area to the east of the town of Burton upon Trent, in the borough of East Staffordshire, England. Flanked to the north and east by the South Derbyshire border, historically the parish of Winshill had always been part of Derbyshir ...

. All three areas are now separate parishes. Brizlincote has a population of around 5,000 and has the highest average household income of any parish in Burton.

History

The parish was historically part of a farm, with

Burton Abbey Burton Abbey at Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, England, was founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwenna. It was refounded in 1003 as a Benedictine abbey by the thegn Wulfric Spott. He was known to have been buried in the abbey ...

records showing land ownership dating back to the early 12th century, when it was held by a man named Mabon. Mabon's grandson was known as Richard of Brizlincote. By the 14th century the land became known as the manor of Brizlincote and came into the Cuyly family, then by marriage to the Stanhope family. Sir Richard Stanhope sold the land to Robert Horton of Catton by the early 15th century. It remained with the Hortons until 1546 when it was sold to

Sir William Paget William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert (15069 June 1563), was an English statesman and accountant who held prominent positions in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. Early life He was the son of John Pachett or Paget, ...

. Paget sold the land in 1560 to a London merchant, John Merry. The Merry family retained ownership until 1708 when it was sold to Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield. Brizlincote Hall, now a farmhouse, was built in 1712 for the earl's son,

Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield (3 February 1673 – 27 January 1726) was an English nobleman, the eldest son of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, by his third wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Dormer. In 1692, Stanhope married ...

. The hall potentially occupies the site of the original medieval manor house, demolished in 1708. After the younger Phillip's death in 1726 the manor was let to tenant farmers. In the late 19th century the manor was passed to the Earls of Carnarvon. In 1878 Brizlincote, then part of Derbyshire, was added to the

(which lay in Staffordshire). The

meant that the parts of the borough that lay in Derbyshire, including Brizlincote, were to be treated as if they were part of Staffordshire. The land was formally transferred to that county in 1894. Brizlincote Hall remains, now outside the parish, in Derbyshire. The Earls of Carnarvon sold the manor farm Brizlincote, comprising in 1921 to William Lomas of

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. The Lomas family retained ownership until the land was sold for housing development in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Land in the parish was formerly farmland, as part of Holme Farm, Spring Cottage Farm, Tollgate Farm and the Model Dairy Farm. The land, also known as the Brizlincote Valley, was described locally as "Little Switzerland" for its charm and recreational use by townsfolk. The Brizlincote Quarry extracted stone from a site between Brizlincote and Stapenhill. Brizlincote was one of seven parishes to be created when Burton was parished by

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in 2003. The land forming the parish was formerly part of the areas of

and

, which are now parishes in their own right.

Location and access

Brizlincote lies in the south-east of the town. It borders the parish of

to the north and west and

(via the A444 road) to the south. Connection to Burton town centre is via St Peter's Bridge over the

River Trent The Trent is the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, third-longest river in the United Kingdom. Its Source (river or stream), source is in Staffordshire, on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains the North Midland ...

. The town of

Swadlincote Swadlincote is a former mining town in the district of South Derbyshire, England, lying within The National Forest area. It borders the counties of Leicestershire and Staffordshire, south-east of Burton upon Trent and north-west of Ashby-de ...

(in

South Derbyshire South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population of the local authority at the 2011 Census was 94,611. It contains a third of the National Forest, and the council offices are in Swadlincote. The district a ...

) lies to the east, accessible via the A511 road. The parish is served by several bus routes. The geology is sandstone, with some marl, overlain with boulder clay and a loamy soil. The land rises away from the River Trent at elevation to a height of around near Brizlincote Hall. The Brizlincote Brook, flowing to the Trent, is now largely culverted.

Demographics

The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 5,385. It is one of the more affluent parishes in Burton, with an average house price of approx. £250,000. Brizlincote households have the highest annual income of any Burton parish.

Notes and references

External links

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