Barton Blount

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Barton Blount
Derbyshire
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Barton Cottages
Location
Grid reference: SK208347
Location: 52°54’34"N, 1°41’32"W
Data
Population: 74  (2001)
Post town: Derby
Postcode: DE65
Local Government
Council: South Derbyshire

Barton Blount is a village in southern Derbyshire, between Derby and Uttoxeter.

The 2011 census noted fewer than 100 inhabitants for the 2011 Census. Details are included in the civil parish of Church Broughton.

A former name, 'Barton Bakepuys', can be seen in a record featuring Thomas Blount, esq, in 1422.[1] The manor was the seat of Sir Walter Blount, a key supporter of John of Gaunt, who bought it from Nicholas Bakepus in the 1380s and renamed it.[2]

During the civil war, in October 1644, the manor house was garrisoned for Parliamentary forces, and a skirmish took place in the neighbourhood between these forces and the Royalist troops from Tutbury Castle.[3] This manor house, Barton Hall was the home of Francis Bradshaw who was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1851.[4]

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References

  1. Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/bCP40no647dorses/IMG_0580.htm; third entry, with "Derb" in the margin, concerning a plea of debt against various people in Staffordshire & elsewhere
  2. Roskell et al, History of Parliament, BLOUNT, Sir Walter (d.1403), of Barton Blount, Derbys. - Author: C.R.
  3. Information on Barton Blount  from GENUKI
  4. London Gazette: no. 21181, p. 363, 11 February 1851.