Butterley

There is a small Ripley Public Library, open six days per week, on Grosvenor Road.

The nearby Alfreton Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

• SCHOFIELD, R. B. - Benjamin Outram. Merton Priory Press, 2001.  ISBN 1-898937-42-7.

• The hamlet was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• There has been NO Anglican parish church or chapel in this hamlet.

• For parish registers, search the nearby parish of Ripley (the church on Butterley Hill road), Pentrich or Swanwic.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• This place was never a separate Civil Parish, so records would be under Pentrich Civil Parish.
   
• The hamlet was in the Ripley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.

"BUTTERLEY is a hamlet, in the parish of Pentrich, and hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, 3 miles from Alfreton, and about 2 from Ripley; it contains but few houses, and derives its importance from being the site of the extensive iron-works of the Butterley Company, where, and at Codnor Park, the manufacture of iron is conducted upon a scale of immense magnitude: all the heavier articles in cast iron a produced at these works, including bridges, steam engines, various kinds of machinery, and water and gas pipes."

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

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• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Butterley entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Butterley entry under Riplay from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Butterley from the National Gazetteer (1868).

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

• The Midland (Heritage) Railway is located in Butterley and preserves some of the railway history of the region.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK404514 (Lat/Lon: 53.058331, -1.39866), Butterley 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.

• Sir James OUTRAM, a hero of the Indian Mutiny, was born at Butterley Hall in January, 1803.

• This hamlet was never a separate modern Civil Parish.
   
• Although most of the hamlet was in Pentrich Civil Parish, some portions were in Ripley and some parts in Swanwick Civil Parishes.
   
• This hamlet was in the ancient Morleston Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• District governance is provided by the Amber Valley Borough Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Alfreton petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, the parish joined the Belper Poorlaw Union.