Windley

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Windley
Derbyshire

Windley
Location
Grid reference: SK305451
Location: 53°0’11"N, 1°32’46"W
Data
Population: 148  (2011)
Post town: Belper
Postcode: DE56
Local Government
Council: Amber Valley

Windley is a small village in Derbyshire, around six miles north of Derby, on the B5023 Duffield to Wirksworth road. The civil parish population as taken at the 2011 Census was 148.

The village was long part of the parish of Duffield within Duffield Frith.

During the reign of Henry III, the Mynors, of the manor of Windle-hill in Sutton-on-the-Hill, Ashbourne also had lands in Windley.[1]

Sir Roger Mynor was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1514, Sergeant of the King's Cellar, an official of Duffield Frith under the Duchy of Lancaster and a Commissioner of the Peace for the county. He and his lady have a magnificent table-tomb in St. Alkmunds Church, Duffield.

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References

  1. Daniel and Samuel Lysons: Magna Britannia: volume 5, Pages 129-142: 'Parishes: Doveridge - Duffield' (1817)