Parwich
| Parwich | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Parwich Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK189545 |
| Location: | 53°5’17"N, 1°43’8"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 472 (2011) |
| Post town: | Ashbourne |
| Postcode: | DE6 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Derbyshire Dales |
Parwich is a village in surrounded by hills in Derbyshire, within the Peak District seven miles north of Ashbourne. The 2011 census recorded a parish population of just 472. It is a village surrounded by fields and hills at a gathering of little lanes; the nearest main road is the Ashbourne to Bakewell road over a mile away and the Ashbourne to Buxton road is more than two miles away.
The village pub is the Sycamore Inn, which contains a public house and village shop. The houses of Parwich are built of local limestone and many stand around an open green, through which runs a stream.
Parish church
The parish church, St Peter's, was built by the local squire, Sir Thomas William Evans, in 1873. However, this was a rebuilding of an earlier church and elements of the older church remain. These date back to Norman times.
The church tympanum is thought to have pre-Norman origins.[1]
History
Parwich appears in the Domesday Book as Pevrewic under Derbyshire in the lands belonging to the King. The record says:
In Parwich are 2 carucates of land to the geld. There is land for two ploughs. It is waste. Kolli holds it of the king and he has three villeins with two bordars with three ploughs. There are twelve acres of meadow. To this manor belong berewicks of Alsop-en-le-Dale, Hanson Grange and Cold Eaton. There are 2 carucates of land to the geld. There is land for two ploughs. It is waste.
Domesday noted that Parwich together with the manors of Darley, Matlock, Wirksworth and Ashbourne and their berewicks rendered in the time of King Edward 32 pounds and 6.5 sesters of honey.[2]
Manor
Parwich was part of the ancient Crown lands and after the Conquest was granted to the Ferrers family, later Earls of Derby. Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, took a prominent part in the Montford Rebellion against the king, and Edward I seized his lands. The king gave the manor to Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, and it became part of the Duchy of Lancaster held by the Cokayne family of Ashbourne Hall. In 1603 it was sold to Thomas Levinge and remained in his family until 1814 when it was sold to William Evans. The Levinge family built Parwich Hall in 1747 but were frequently absent. After 1892, the estate was split between the Carrs and the Gisbornes. After the First World War, the estate was sold to the Inglefields who sold it in the 1970s.[3]
The school and the church in its current form were built by Sir Thomas William Evans in 1861 and 1873.
Evans owned Parwich Hall, possibly as a summer retreat from his home in Derby. It was bought in 1814 by William Evans, Thomas's father, who was a Derbyshire MP, but was in use as a vicarage by 1841.[4]
About the village
The village has a church, a primary school, the Sycamore Inn (which contains a public house and village shop), a memorial hall (established in 1962 and rebuilt in 2010), the Royal British Legion club house (established 1951), a hard surfaced play area, a bowling green and a cricket pitch.[5]
The Peak District Boundary Walk runs north–south through the village,[6] and the Limestone Way long-distance bridleway passes west–east.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ St Peter’s Church at Parwich: DerbyshireUK
- ↑ Parwich in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Church History, Parwich & District Local History Society, http://www.parwichhistory.com/church_history.htm, retrieved 16 June 2016
- ↑ Foden, Brian; Shields, Robert; Shields, Rosemary; Trewhitt, Peter (September 2003). Parwich Hall. Parwich & District Local History Society. http://www.parwichhistory.com/Issue%2014.htm. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ↑ "Parwich". parwich.org. https://parwich.org/village/the-area/.
- ↑ McCloy, Andrew (2017). Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park. Friends of the Peak District. ISBN 978-1909461536.