A brief History of Staveley
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Since its inception, the SHS has been accumulating information about Staveley history, from the doomsday to today. A brief history and archive images are currently being compiled by the Staveley History Society.
In the interim, an excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1820 for your entertainment:
Staveley is a neat village, very pleasantly situated, about four miles midway between Chesterfield and Bolsover, co. Derby. It contains within its parish the chapelry of Barlow, the hamlets of Netherthorp and Woodthorp, with three of the name of Hundley, containing altogether about 408 houses.
In Domesday Book, among the lands of Ascuit Musard, it is said that in the manor of "Stavelie, Hacon had four carucates of land to be taxed; land to four ploughs. Ascuit has now there, in the demesne, three ploughs, and twenty-one villanes ; and seven bordars have four ploughs. There is a Priest and a Church; and one mill of five shillings and four pence. There are sixty acres of meadow ; wood pasture one mile and a half long, and as much broad. Value in King Edward's time, and now, six pounds." *
In the reign of Edward I, the manor of Staveley belonged to John Musard.† Issue male failing in his successor, N. Musard, the eldest sister of the latter conveyed it by marriage to T. Freschville, a branch of that family who were Barons of Crich in the reign of Henry III, and came Over with the Conqueror from a place of that name in Normandy.
* Orig. Dom. Boc. 277. b. 2.-"Bawdwen's Trans.," p. 322.
† A name which implies, according to Camden, doubters and delayers.
...continued in the Staveley Hall section.
