Elvaston is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The parish also includes two hamlets, Ambaston and Thulston, and a modern housing estate, Boulton Moor. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 1,801. Located to the south-east of Derby, Elvaston itself is dominated by Elvaston Castle, a country house which is currently in the ownership of Derbyshire County Council, who plan to lease the site to a private company. The move has proved controversial, attracting a petition of 60,000 signatures against the proposals collected by the Elvaston Castle Estate Trust, who want to keep the site in public ownership. At the present time the Castle is rarely open to the public and has been somewhat neglected, while the grounds are open throughout the summer. St Bartholomew's Church, Elvaston is a

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building that dates from the 13th century.

History

In 1086, the Domesday Book says:Open Domesday Online: Elvaston
accessed June 2017

”The land of Geoffrey Alselin
In Alvaston and Ambaston Thulston and Elvaston Toki had ten carucates of land to the geld. There Geoffrey AlselinGeoffrey Alselin held a considerable number of manors including several in Derbyshire given to him by the King. These included obviously Ambaston, Elvaston, Alvaston and Thulston, but also land in Etwall,
Ednaston Brailsford () is a small red-brick village and civil parish in Derbyshire on the A52 midway between Derby and Ashbourne. The parish also includes Brailsford Green. The civil parish population at the 2011 Census was 1,118. The village has a pub ...
, Hulland, Egginton, Breaston and Ockbrook has now two ploughs in
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; and a certain knight of his one plough. There 32 villans have 15 ploughs. There is one priest and a church and a mill rendering 12 shillings and one smith and of meadow and a little scrubland. TRETRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of
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before the Battle of Hastings. worth twelve pounds now ten pounds.''Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.750 “

Notable residents

* Anthony Blackwall was a vicar here * William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington 1683–1756 * John Buller (1823–1967), was born here *

Geoffrey S. Dawes Geoffrey Sharman Dawes, CBE, FRS, FRCOG, FRCP, FACOG(Hon), FAAP(Hon) (21 January 1918 – 6 May 1996) was an English physiologist and was considered to be the foremost international authority on fetal and neonatal physiology.

, physiologist lived in Thurleston Grange as a boy * William Darwin Fox, introduced his second cousin Charles Darwin to the study of insects, was born near here in 1805

Ambaston

The hamlet of Ambaston is located about one mile east of Elvaston close to the River Derwent.

Thulston

The hamlet of Thulston is immediately south of Elvaston on the B5010 road. The Harrington Arms is the only public house in the parish and is a local landmark in Thulston.

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