Alderwasley
| Alderwasley | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) All Saints Church, Alderwasley | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK443479 |
| Location: | 53°4’43"N, 1°31’44"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 469 (2011) |
| Post town: | Belper |
| Postcode: | DE56 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Amber Valley |
Alderwasley is a village in Derbyshire, in the east of the county, about six miles north of Belper.
The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was recorded as 469.
The grand house of the village is Alderwasley Hall, which is today is the home to one of the sites of Alderwasley Hall School, a special school for children and young people with Aspergers and/or speech and language difficulties.
The village's name derives from Old English, and has been interpreted as coming form words for "meadow (or clearing) near alluvial land, with alders".[1]
History
In the Middle Ages, Alderwasley was a manor within Duffield Frith and contained the Royal Park of Shining Cliff Wood and a later park was formed to the south called Bradley Laund. In 1284 the Shining Cliff was given to William Foun by Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster. Foun was given the job of maintaining the boundaries between the Pendleton and Peatpits Brooks.
The estate passed to Thomas Lowe by marriage in 1471. His son Anthony Lowe, as gentleman of the bedchamber for King Henry VIII, was made a hereditary forester of Duffield Frith in 1523, and awarded the Manor of Alderwasley, with Ashleyhay, in 1528. In 1670 the whole estate passed, again by marriage, to Nicholas Hurt of Casterne in Staffordshire, a direct descendant of William Foun, and in 1715 he formed a new park. In 1905 this contained a herd of eighty fallow deer and what was considered to be the finest timber, especially oak, to be found. However, the estate was sold and broken up in the 1920s.[2]
The village has a reputation for its findings of silver treasure, namely coin clippings. The church plate of Alderwasley (a chalice, paten, flagon, and alms dish) were made from clippings of Charles I silver coins weighing 8lb, dug up in Bacon Meadow on 27 March 1846, according to a label on an earthenware jar in which the clippings had been hidden.[3] Further clippings were uncovered by three brothers in their garden in the village, which was recorded on a BBC Blue Peter programme in 1971.[4]
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References
- ↑ "Alderwasley". Key to English Place-names. English Place Name Society at the University of Nottingham. http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Derbyshire/Alderwasley. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ↑ Turbutt, G. (1999). A History of Derbyshire. 2: Mediæval Derbyshire. Cardiff: Merton Priory Press.
- ↑ Cox, Rev J Charles (1906). "A note on Coin Clippings and Church Plate in Derbyshire". British Numismatic Journal 3. http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1906_BNJ_3_20.pdf.
- ↑ Blue Peter episode, 23 September 1971 - YouTube