Windley is a small village and
civil parish in
Derbyshire, England, around north of
Derby, adjacent to the
B5023 Duffield to
Wirksworth road. The civil parish population as taken at the 2011 Census was 148.
It was formerly 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
Sutton-on-the-Hill is a parish in south Derbyshire eight miles (13 km) west of Derby. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 123. The village is widely spread out and contains both a church (which, unlike most of the ...
,
Ashbourne also had lands in Windley.
[Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817) Magna Britannia: volume 5 Pages 129-142 'Parishes: Doveridge - Duffield', http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50727. Date accessed: 24 October 2007.]
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 Peace for the
County of Derby. He, with his lady, has a magnificent table-tomb in St. Alkmunds Church, Duffield.
See also
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Listed buildings in Windley
Windley is a civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains eight listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's ...
References
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Villages in Derbyshire
Geography of Amber Valley
Civil parishes in Derbyshire
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