Dalbury Lees
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 All Saints' Church, Dalbury' '. |
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| Dalbury Lees shown within Derbyshire | |
| Population | 306 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | SK265348 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ASHBOURNE |
| Postcode district | DE6 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
Dalbury Lees is a parish in south Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census (including Trusley) was 306. It is about six miles (10 km) from both Burton-on-Trent and Derby and just under four miles (6 km) from Egginton. The parish contains the villages of Dalbury and Lees which are just under 2 miles (3.2 km) apart from one another. Dalbury Lees has been known as Dalbury and as Dalbury with Lees, but Dalbury Lees is the preferred term
In late Victorian times the name was said to have developed from the Old Norse deity name Dellingr, Dalbury is mentioned twice in the Domesday book where it is spelt Delbebi and Dellingeberie. The book records firstly that there were three bovates which are of the manor of Mickleover which at that time belonged to the Abbey of Burton. The Abbey held various manors including Appleby Magna, Winshill and Stapenhill - these were all within Derbyshire at that time.
Later the book lists under the title of “The lands of Henry de Ferrers
”In Dalbury Godric had two carucates of land to the geld. There is land for four ploughs. There are now two ploughs in demesne and six villans and one with two ploughs. There is a priest and a church and twenty acres of meadow, woodland pasture one furlong long and half a league broad. TRE worth forty shillings now sixty shillings. Robert holds it.“
Dalbury is the smaller of the two villages with a handful of houses, a church, and during the nineteenth century a school that could take sixty children. The small church is said to have the former tower of Trentham Priory... "The small church tower formerly belonged to Trentham Priory, in Staffordshire".
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