Bretby
| Bretby | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 St Wystan's Church at Bretby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK293230 |
| Location: | 52°48’14"N, 1°33’58"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 893 (2011) |
| Post town: | Burton On Trent |
| Postcode: | DE15 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Derbyshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Derbyshire |
Bretby is a village in the south of Derbyshire, in the long finger of the county between Staffordshire to the north-west and Leicestershire to the south-east. The village is to the north of Swadlincote and east of Burton upon Trent. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 893.
On the A511 road (formerly A50), there is a secondary settlement, Stanhope Bretby, which was the site of Bretby Colliery.[1]
History
This manor (Bretebi) is in the Domesday Book in 1086, under the title of “The land of the King (in Derbyshire. The record says:
In Newton Solney and Bretby Ælfgar had seven carucates]] of land to the geld. There is land for six ploughs. There the king has one plough and nineteen villeins and one bordar with five ploughs. There are 12 acres of meadow, woodland pasture two leagues long and three furlongs broad. In the time of King Edward as now worth one hundred shillings.
In 1209, Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester granted the manor of Bretby to Stephen de Segrave, who built a church and a mansion there. There was also Bretby Castle which was destroyed during the reign of King James I to make way for the construction of Bretby Hall.[1]
In 1585, Thomas Stanhope bought Bretby Hall, which from then on was the home of the Earls of Chesterfield. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon sold the property in the 1920s to pay for the Tutankhamun expedition.
Today
Today the village is centred by a village green.
The Grade II listed parish church is dedicated to St Wystan; it was rebuilt in 1877.[2]
There is a small industrial area within Burton upon Trent and Swadlincote Green Belt, Bretby Stoneware Industrial Estate, based at the former Bretby Brick Works.
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