Holbrook is a village in
Derbyshire
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at the southern end of the
Pennines
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around five miles north of
Derby
Derby ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area on the River Derwent, Derbyshire, River Derwent in Derbyshire, England. Derbyshire is named after Derby, which was its original co ...
, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,538.
History
Holbrook lies about two miles to the north-east of
Duffield, the parish of which it was a part, being within
Duffield Frith
Duffield Frith was, in medieval times, an area of Derbyshire in England, part of that bestowed upon Henry de Ferrers (or Ferrars) by King William, controlled from his seat at Duffield Castle. From 1266 it became part of the Duchy of Lancaster ...
. When the latter was seized by
King Henry III following the rebellion of
Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby
Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby (1239–1279) was an English nobleman.
He was born at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England, the son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by his second wife Margaret de Quincy (born 1218), a daug ...
it appears to have been spared. However it became the property of
Edmund Crouchback along with the rest of the Frith. It was sold by the Crown to various local
copyhold
Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England. The name for this type of land tenure is derived from the act of giving a copy of the relevant title deed that is recorded in the ...
ers in the reign of
Charles I. It included the
capital messuage, called ''Cocksbench'', or ''
Coxbench Hall''.
Coxbench, which is a hamlet just to the south, but in
Horsley parish, is supposed to have been the "Herdebi" mentioned in the
Domesday Survey, as held under
Henry de Ferrers
Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Normans, Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England.
Origins
He was the eldest son of Vauquelin de Ferrers and i ...
; and the adjoining part of the manor of
Horsley is supposed to have been the "Herdebi" held under Ralph de Burun.
In 1863, Holbrook (or Holbrooke) was created as a separate
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
from that of Duffield.
St Michael's Church, Holbrook is a simple construction in stone built in 1761 by Rev. S. Bradshaw. It was rebuilt and enlarged in 1841 by the MP
William Evans.
Holbrooke
, Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland, London (May, 1891) - pp.230-231
It was once served by Coxbench railway station on the Midland Railway Ripley Branch.
See also
* Listed buildings in Holbrook, Derbyshire
References
External links
Villages in Derbyshire
Civil parishes in Derbyshire
Geography of Amber Valley
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