Windley

Human settlement in England

Amber Valley

Derbyshire

Region

East Midlands

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBELPERPostcode districtDE56PoliceDerbyshireFire Derbyshire Ambulance East Midlands

List of places: UK; England; Derbyshire

53°00′11″N 1°32′46″W / 53.003°N 1.546°W / 53.003; -1.546

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Windley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, around 6 miles (10 km) north of Derby, adjacent to the B5023 Duffield to Wirksworth road. The civil parish population as taken at the 2011 Census was 148.^[1]

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, Ashbourne also had lands in Windley.^[2]

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.

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
^ 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.