Bretby
Sign in to saveBretby is a village and civil parish in the south of Derbyshire, England, north of Swadlincote and east of Burton upon Trent, on the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 893. The name means "dwelling place of Britons". On the A511 road (formerly A50), there is a secondary settlement, Stanhope Bretby, which was the site of Bretby Colliery.
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Place details
- Locality
- South Derbyshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- BretbyChurch.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Wystan's Church at Bretby
- UK place.static_image_2_name
- Derbyshire UK parish map highlighting Bretby.svg
- UK place.static_image_2_caption
- Bretby parish highlighted within Derbyshire
- UK place.official_name
- Bretby
- UK place.population
- 893
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.shire_district
- South Derbyshire
- UK place.shire_county
- Derbyshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Derbyshire
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Derbyshire
- Population
- +893
- Shares border with
- Repton
- Image
- BretbyChurch.JPG
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Bretby is a village and civil parish in the south of Derbyshire, England, north of Swadlincote and east of Burton upon Trent, on the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 893. The name means "dwelling place of Britons". On the A511 road (formerly A50), there is a secondary settlement, Stanhope Bretby, which was the site of Bretby Colliery.
==History== This manor (Bretebi) was in the Domesday Book in 1086. Under the title of "The land of the King (in Derbyshire" it said: In Newton Solney and Bretby Ælfgar had seven carucates of land to the geld. There is land for six ploughs. There the king has one plough and nineteen villans and one bordar with five ploughs. There are of meadow, woodland pasture two leagues long and three furlongs broad. TRE as now worth one hundred shillings. thumb|left|Bretby ponds are nearby thumb|The former Bradby School – 2007 In 1209, Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester granted the manor of Bretby to Stephen de Segrave who built a church and a mansion there. There was also Bretby Castle which was destroyed during the reign of King James I of England to make way for the construction of Bretby Hall.