Risley () is a small village and

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in the

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, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 711. It is four miles south of

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. It is midway between

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and

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and is near junction 25 of the

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, and the A52. In 1870 it had a population of 203 when there was a grammar school that served seven neighbouring parishes.John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
1870

History

All Saints' Church was built in Elizabethan times by members of the Willoughby family, who had acquired Risley in 1350 AD and who also founded a free school in the village. Risley is a long thin village with most properties lying on either side of the main road. With the village hall standing on one side of the church and the school on the other, this is the closest one can get to the village "centre". The church belongs to the Stanton group of churches with

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and

Stanton by Dale Stanton by Dale, also written as Stanton-by-Dale and sometimes referred to as simply Stanton, is a village and civil parish in the south east of Derbyshire, England. According to the University of Nottingham English Place-names project, the sett ...

. The villag
pub
is the Risley Park formerly the Blue Ball on Derby Road Risley Manor originally belonged to the Mortimers. It passed to the Sheffields and then the Willoughbys and, in 1870, it belonged to J. L. Ffytche. Th
manor
was held by Sir

Hugh Willoughby Sir Hugh Willoughby (fl. 1544; died 1554) was an English soldier and an early Arctic voyager. He served in the court of and fought in the Scottish campaign where he was knighted for his valour. In 1553, he was selected by a company of London ...

, the navigator, who sailed on 10 May 1553, with three ships, in search of the

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, but was frozen to death with all his crew in the following January. It is now a country house hotel. A silver vessel known as the Risley Park Lanx, 20 inches by 15, said to have belonged to a church in France in 405, was found near the Hall in 1729.

Sport

Cricket

Risley Cricket Club has a history of activity dating back to 1872. The club's ground and pavilion is 200m up the track, off the Derby Road, behind Treetops Hospice. The club has two senior teams that compete in the Derbyshire County Cricket League and a long-established junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League.

Golf

Maywood Golf Club opened in 1990 as a 9-hole course, and was then extended to an 18-hole course in 1992. The 72-par course closed permanently on 31 March 2019.

Notable residents

* Sir

, the navigator, owned the manor here. * Teresa Hooley, poet, was born here in 1888.

References

External links

Risley Parish Council
{{authority control Villages in Derbyshire Civil parishes in Derbyshire Borough of Erewash