Bradley

Bradley is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at Yew Tree Lane on every fourth Monday in the mid-afternoon.

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

• Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of the Bradley Church and churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• By 1911, the parish was re-assigned to 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 church was built in the 14th century. It is the third church built on this site.
   
• Originally the church had a wooden bell turret on the west end which contained three bells. That turret has since been removed.
   
• Two photographs of All Saints Church can be found on the Derbyshire photos site.
   
• Martyn GLOVER provides a photograph of Bradley Church on Geo-graph, taken in September 2006.
   
• Martyn GLOVER also has a photograph of the Bradley Church and Hall on Geo-graph, taken in December 2006.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1579, but the early years are "very dilapidated".
   
• We have a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a pop-up window text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
   
• The Family History Library has the parish register for 1591 through 1981 on microfilm. They also have a microfilm of the transcript of baptisms from 1813 through 1874, which was created by the Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ashborne.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Ashbourne sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.
   
• By 1911, the parish was re-assigned to the Brassington sub-district of the Ashbourne Registration District.

"BRADLEY, a parish in the hundred of Appletree, in the county of Derby, 3 miles to the E. of Ashbourne, its post town. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Lichfield, value £259, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, a small building of ancient date, is dedicated to All Saints. Bradley is one of the parishes which share in common the benefit of Gisborne's Charity, the annual produce of which is nearly £700. Bradley Park is not far from the village."

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

"Hole in the Wall" is indeed a place just west of the village where the old road does, in fact, go through an archway in the structure

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Bradley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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

The parish land was largely used for dairy pasturage.

Thomas Bancroft, a 17th-century poet from Swarkestone, retired here.

Bradley Hall was unoccupied in 1912.

Peter BARR has a photograph of Bradley Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2012. The Hall stands about a half mile north of the village.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK225458 (Lat/Lon: 53.009042, -1.66612), Bradley 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.

In this parish was the Ashbourne Joint Hospital Board's Smallpox Hospital, which had room for 20 patients. These hospitals did not have to archive patient records, but you may find accounting records and photographs in the archives.

There are two monuments in the parish church. One is to the three men from the parish who died in World War One. The other is a private memorial for Flight Officer Robert TOMLINSON, RAF Vol. Rsrv. who died in WWII.

• There is a War Memorial inside All Saints Church.
   
• Major Ernest CLOWES, DSO, who served in the second Anglo-Boer War with the Life Guards, and in the Great War. Succeeded by his son John Ernest CLOWES who served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War Two in Greece (Force 133) and Burma (Force 136).

In 1912, most of the residents were listed as "cowkeepers".

• This place was an ancient parish in county Derby and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In April, 1934, this Civil Parish absorbed 49 acres from the abolition of Sturston Civil Parish.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Ashbourn petty session hearings.
   
• There is an index of seven Bradley Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Bradley" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built here in 1873 for 90 children. Average attendance in 1912 was 55.