Radbourne is a small village and

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 authorit ...

in the English county of

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, a few miles west of

Derby Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby g ...

. As the population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was less than 100 details are included in the civil parish of

Etwall Etwall () is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, southwest of Derby on the A50. The population at the 2011 Census was 2,906. Geography Etwall is located between the A516 bypass and the A50 in south Derbyshire. The A516 draws hea ...

. Of interest are St Andrew's Church and

Radbourne Hall Radbourne Hall is an 18th-century Georgian country house, the seat of the Chandos-Pole family, at Radbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade I listed building. History The Manor of Radbourne has been held by the Chandos family from the time of the ...

. It has been said that

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stayed one night at the hall in 1745 on his march south when his army halted at

Swarkestone Bridge Swarkestone Bridge is a medieval bridge crossing the River Trent between the villages of Swarkestone and Stanton by Bridge, about 6 miles south of Derby. It is currently Grade I Listed and a scheduled monument. History The bridge was built i ...

just south of Derby. It would appear that Radbourne was part of the lands of the Ferrers, earls of Derby, forfeited to the Crown in the 1260s after the Baronial War, which were ultimately used to endow Edmund of Lancaster, second son of Henry III, and younger brother of Edward I. In the main the entries in The National Archives that relate to Radbourne are rather mundane, so that in the earliest one, that for 1377 (TNA DL 30/45/520, rot 14d.), John del Enese and Roger Harwode, the men who answered at the court (?tithingmen), reported that Robert Jort and William Brewode had brewed gainst the assise and were in mercy. Jort was fined 7 d., and Brewode, 3d. Further entries in the reigns of Richard II, and Henry IV and V report similar offences. In 1426 (TNA DL 30/45/568, rot. 5d.), John Robynsone and William Bearle simply stated ‘quod omnia bene’ (‘all is well’). The Poles don't make an appearance until the reign of Henry VI when in 1422, Peter de la Pole was one of those attending court for Radbourne (TNA DL 30/45/567 rot. 6d.). In 1466 during the reign of Edward IV (TNA DL 30/45/579, rot. 3d.), Ralph Pole was granted a licence to concord, in other words to execute a final concord for 12d. The medieval

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Sir John Chandos Sir John Chandos, Viscount of Saint-Sauveur in the Cotentin, Constable of Aquitaine, Seneschal of Poitou, (c. 1320 – 31 December 1369) was a medieval English knight who hailed from Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Chandos was a close friend of ...

, a close friend of

Edward, the Black Prince Edward of Woodstock, known to history as the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), was the eldest son of King Edward III of England, and the heir apparent to the English throne. He died before his father and so his son, Richard II, suc ...

, hailed from Radbourne in the 14th century. Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, lived at Radbourne Hall for a short while after his marriage to Elizabeth Pole in 1781.

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*http://www.derbyshireuk.net/radbourne.html Civil parishes in Derbyshire Villages in Derbyshire South Derbyshire District {{Derbyshire-geo-stub

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