Bradbourne

The Library at Matlock is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section. It is normally open six days per week.

Alternatively, the Wirksworth Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Peter BARR has a photograph of the Church Tower and churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.

David KELLY also has a photograph of Bradbourne churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2018.

• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• The churchyard contained a Saxon cross from the year 800, but it had broken and the pieces were moved inside the church.
   
• There was a Saxon church here at the Domesday Survey of 1068. Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of the Saxon Cross on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2010.
   
• The church existed in 1205.
   
• Dave KELLY has a photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2018.
   
• The church was completely restored in 1846.
   
• The church seats 205.
   
• Ann B. has a nice photograph of All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1720.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.

"BRADBORNE, (or Bradbourne) a parish in the hundreds of Appletree and Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, 5 miles to the N. of Ashbourne. Wirksworth is its post town. It comprises the chapelries of Atlow, Ballidon, and Brassington; the township of Aldwark, and the hamlet of Lea Hall. Limestone is abundant in the district. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield, of the value with the perpetual curacy of Ballidon annexed to it, of £119, in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The parish covers over 9,966 acres and includes the townships of Bradbourn, Aldwark, Ballidon, Brassington, and the hamlet of Lea Hall.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Bradbourne entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Bradbourne entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• The transcription of the section for Bradborne from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.
   
• John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72," tells us:.

"BRADBOURNE, a township in Ashborne district, and a parish in Ashborne and Bakewell districts, Derby. The township lies on an affluent of the river Dove, 5 miles NNE of Ashborne r. station. Real property, £2,733. Pop., 144. Houses, 28.—The parish contains also the townships of Brassington, Ballidon, and Aldwark, the hamlet of Lea-Hall, and the chapelry of Atlow; and its Post Town is Brassington, under Wirksworth. Acres, 6,253. Real property, £13,699. Pop., 1,187. Houses, 248. The property is subdivided. Bradbourne Hall is a chief residence. Tissington Hall is the seat of Sir William Fitzherbert, Bart. Limestone is abundant. Roman coins have been found. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Ballidon, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £119. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church has a Norman tower, and is good. The chapelries of Brassington and Atlow are separate benefices. Charities, £21."

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bradbourne to another place.

Robert HOWL has a photograph of "The Hall" on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK207526 (Lat/Lon: 53.070239, -1.692512), Bradbourne which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Bradbourne is one of the Thankful Villages of England, having suffered no losses during World War I. It is the only village in Derbyshire to bear this title.
   
• Eamon CURRY has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in Sept., 2010. Although often referred to as a War Memorial, it appears to be a Millennium Memorial erected by the village for Queen Victoria's Jubilee,
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015. Mystery solved!
   
• There is a Commonwealth War Grave in the churchyard for a Private D. HOLMES who was from the neighboring village of Aldwark, son of James R. and Sarah Ann HOLMES.
   

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this announcement from the Derby Mercury of 5 May, 1803: DIED: "On the 13th ult. the Rev. Thos. ROE, Vicar of Bradborne, in this county, whose loss is truly regretted by a numerous poor."

• The place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake) and partly in the Appletree Hundred.
   
• Aldwark township was split off as a separate Civil Parish in 1866.
   
• This parish is a member of the Derbyshire Dales District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashbourne petty session hearings.
   
• There is an index of five Bradbourne Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Bradbourne" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, Aldwarke Township became a member of the Bakewell Poorlaw Union.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834 reforms, the rest of the parish became a member of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.