Breadsall

Breadsall is served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops by the Memorial Hall on every fourth Thursday afternoon.

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

Ruth SHARVILLE has a photograph of All Saints' churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.

Francis DOLMAN has a photograph of the graveyard at All Saints church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.

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

• There was a church here at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1056.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
   
• This church appears to date from circa 1150.
   
• This church was completely reconstructed about a century later and the large tower added..
   
• The church was extensively repaired in 1830 and restored in 1877.
   
• The north aisle was repaired in 1902.
   
• The church was damaged in 1914 when local suffragettes set the church on fire. The interior was gutted and the damage was repaired in 1915. The church re-opened for services on 14 April 1916. The Suffragettes were upset with the Church of England's resistance to women getting the vote.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Saints' church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2011.
   
• The church seats 420.
   
• The church is Grade 1 listed with Historic England.
   
• An ancient Priory, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was founded here in the reign of Henry III, but only fragments of the building remained by the late 1800s.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1573, but the years 1592 to 1601 are missing and some later years appear incomplete.
   
• Marriages at Breadsall, 1573-1837 are available in Nigel BATTY-SMITH's database of scanned images of Phillimore's Parish Registers.
   
• Mike SPENCER has given us the beginning of an extract of Parish Register Burials for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodist built a chapel here in 1826. This was converted to a private residence some time before 2004.

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

"BREADSALL is a parish (having no dependent township) in the hundred of Appletree, though locally situate in that of Morleston and Litchurch; about three miles N.N.E. from Derby, and the like distances. S.S.E. from Duffield. The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a large and handsome edifice, with a lofty needle spire, which forms a prominent object for a considerable distance around."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The parish lies 145 miles north of London and covers 2,300 acres. Passenger rail service ceased in 1953 and goods services in 1962. Regular bus service, YourBus route 59, runs between Ilkeston and Derby city.

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of Breadsall Village on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• A Description of Breadsall has been transcribed by Heather FAULKES from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Breadsall entry under Duffield from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Breadsall entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Breadsall entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Breadsall from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

Erasmus DARWIN, grandfather of Charles DARWIN, is buried here. He was born in Nottinghamshire and spent much of his adult life in Litchfield, NTT. but moved to Breadsall in 1802. He died only a few months later.

• Michael SMITH has a photograph of the Remains of Breadsall Railway Station on Geo-graph, taken in September 2005.
   
• Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of The Windmill pub. on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016.
   
• There is a brief history of Breadsall and some photographs at the Derby Photos website.

Michael GARLICK provides a photograph of Breadsall Old Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK373404 (Lat/Lon: 52.959777, -1.445493), Breadsall 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.

• The church of All Saints has a very fine war memorial in the style of a Celtic cross within the churchyard, commemorating fourteen men who died during the First World War and nine men and one woman who lost their lives during the Second World War.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the War Memorial plynth in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.
   
• The Traces of War website shows us the parish has 2 Commonwealth War Graves from WWII.

A local Solicitor, Woodforde B. WOODFORDE, is listed as a resident here in 1891 and 1911. Directories tell us he was a Colonel, but don't give a military unit. He was born in 1854 and died in 1926.

For a photograph of the Breadsall War Memorial and the list of names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.

Breadsall was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and being worth four pounds.

• 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).
   
• You may contact the local Breadsall Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NEITHER staffed nor funded to provide family history searches. Their web site does give access to information about local clubs and the village hall.
   
• District governance is provided by the Erewash Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings every Friday.
   
• There is an index of three Breadsall Bastardy Papers held at the DRO on the Yesterdays Journey website. Select "Bastardy Papers" on the left side, then "Breadsall" from the list of parishes displayed.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, the parish became a member of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was built here in 1837 for 100 boys and girls and 20 infants.

Ruth SHARVILLE has a photograph of Breadsall School on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.