Risley
Risley is a small village and parish in the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 711. It is four miles south of Ilkeston.
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Overview
Overview
It is midway between Derby and Nottingham and is near junction 25 of the M1 motorway, and the A52. In 1870 it had a population of 203 when there was a grammar school that served seven neighbouring parishes.
Key facts
Key facts
• Country — England • Static Image Width — 250 • Official Name — Risley • Population — 711 • Population Ref — (2011) • Shire District — Erewash • Shire County — Derbyshire • Region — East Midlands • Constituency Westminster — Erewash • Post Town — DERBY • Postcode District — DE72 • Postcode Area — DE • Dial Code — 0115 • Os Grid Reference — SK458356
History
History
All Saints' Church was built in Elizabethan times by members of the Willoughby family, who had acquired Risley in 1350 AD and who also founded a free school in the village. Risley is a long thin village with most properties lying on either side of the main road. With the village hall standing on one side of the church and the school on the other, this is the closest one can get to the village "centre". The church belongs to the Stanton group of churches with Dale Abbey and Stanton by Dale. The village pub is the Risley Park formerly the Blue Ball on Derby Road Risley Manor originally belonged to the Mortimers. It passed to the Sheffields and then the Willoughbys and, in 1870, it belonged to J. L. Ffytche. The manor was held by Sir Hugh Willoughby, the navigator, who sailed on 10 May 1553, with three ships, in search of the North-east passage, but was frozen to death with all his crew in the following January. It is now a country house hotel. A silver vessel known as the Risley Park Lanx, 20 inches by 15, said to have belonged to a church in France in 405, was found near the Hall in 1729.
Cricket
Cricket
Risley Cricket Club has a history of activity dating back to 1872. The club's ground and pavilion is 200m up the track, off the Derby Road, behind Treetops Hospice. The club has two senior teams that compete in the Derbyshire County Cricket League and a long-established junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League.
Golf
Golf
Maywood Golf Club opened in 1990 as a 9-hole course, and was then extended to an 18-hole course in 1992. The 72-par course closed permanently on 31 March 2019.
Notable residents
Notable residents
• Sir Hugh Willoughby (fl. 1544;-1554), soldier and an early Arctic voyager. • William Sampson (1590?–1636?), an English dramatist. • Anchitell Grey (c.1624–1702), politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1665 and 1695. • Teresa Hooley (1888–1973), poet, known for her war poem A War Film, about World War I
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Cited by Wikipedia
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Risley Parish Council
- 2.Office for National Statistics. Civil Parish population 2011. Neighbourhood Statistics.
- 3.John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870
- 4.Risley Park
- 5.Pigot's Commercial Directory of Derbyshire, 1828/9, accessed 5 May 2008
- 6.Breakwell, Keith. The History of Cricket in Long Eaton, Sandiacre & Sawley. 1994. 978-0-9521-4371-0.
- 7.Risley Cricket Club. About Us.
- 8.DCCL. Derbyshire County Cricket League. derbyscountylge.play-cricket.com.
- 9.EYCL. Erewash Young Cricketers League.
- 10.English Golf Courses. Maywood Golf Club.
- 11.Today's Golfer. Maywood Golf Club. 11 July 2017.
- 12.Harper, Christopher. Why this Derbyshire golf club is closing after more than a decade. Derby Telegraph. 3 September 2018.
- 13.Laughton, John Knox. 62. 36-37.
- 14.Lee, Sidney. 50. 233-234.
- 15.Goodwin, Gordon. 23. 169.
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