Brimington
| Brimington | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Methodist Church at Brimington | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK406736 |
| Location: | 53°15’29"N, 1°23’26"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 8,788 (2011) |
| Post town: | Chesterfield |
| Postcode: | S43 |
| Dialling code: | 01246 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Chesterfield |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Chesterfield |
Brimington is a village in north-eastern Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish (including Hollingwood) at the 2011 census was recorded as 8,788.
The town of Staveley is to the east, and Hollingwood is nearby. The parish includes Brimington Common along the Calow Road, and New Brimington, a late 19th-century extension towards the Staveley Iron Works.[1]
History
The route of Icknield Street, a Roman road, passes close to the village.[2]
Brimington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Brimintune. At that time, the manor was the property of the King and the population was recorded as being sixteen villagers, two smallholders and one slave.[3] There was a church in the village in the Middle Ages; not a parish church but a chapel of ease within the Parish of Chesterfield.[4]
In the autumn of 1603, the plague swept through Brimington; the victims were buried in the village but were recorded in the parish register at Chesterfield.[5]
The Chesterfield Canal, which was built just to the north of the village, opened in 1777.[6]
In 1796, the old church of St Michael and All Angels was demolished and replaced with a new building, of which only the tower survives. The present church was rebuilt in 1847 and contains a war memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger; it is a Grade II listed building.[7] A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1806.[6] In 1831, the population of Brimington was 759 people living in 142 houses.[8]
In 1881, Alfred Gough was hanged in Derby for the murder of six year-old Eleanor Wendle of Brimington, who was picking blackberries in the local fields.[9]
The manor house, Brimington Hall, was built in the 16th and 17th centuries and was the home of the Foljambe, Heywood, Coke and Markham families; it was demolished in 1924 but a fragment of its parkland survives as a green space on either side of Hall Road, just south of the church.[10]
About the village
Brimington has a small library, various businesses including a chemist, car garages and showrooms, shops and a petrol station.
There is an old pub called the Ark Tavern.
Sutton Lodge (formerly Sutton Villa) dates from about 1780–90, and is now a care home.
Other pubs in the centre of Brimington are Brimming with Beer, The Red Lion, The Three Horseshoes, The Butchers Arms and the most recently built, The Corner House, which has now been demolished and is part of the caravan store. Towards the lower end of Brimington, overlooking the Chesterfield Canal, is The Mill and along Brimington Common are The Miner's Arms and The Brickmakers Arms (which has since closed and has been converted into a residential property).
Brimington's Memorial Gates commemorate the village soldiers of both World Wars and is situated on Manor Road. A website is dedicated to the men from the village who died in the First World War.[11]
References
- ↑ History: Brimington Parish Council
- ↑ Hall, Rev. George (1839). The History of Chesterfield: With Particulars of the Hamlets Contiguous to the Town. London: Whittaker and Co.. p. 342. https://books.google.com/books?id=gGE2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA342.
- ↑ Brimington in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Hall p. 341
- ↑ Hall pp. 341-342
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Information on Brimington from GENUKI
- ↑ National Heritage List 1088303: Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Hall p. 342
- ↑ "Alfred Gough". British Executions. http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=1259&termRef=Alfred%20Gough.
- ↑ "Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Brimington Hall". Images Publishing Ltd. 1 May 2019. https://www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk/uncategorized/lost-houses-of-derbyshire-brimington-hall/.
- ↑ www.brimington-memorial.co.uk