Fenny Bentley Derbyshire Family History Guide

Fenny Bentley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Derbyshire. 

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1604
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1662

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

• Bradbourne with Ballidon
• Thorpe
• Tissington
• Kniveton
• Ashbourne with Mapleton

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BENTLEY (Fenny), a parish in Ashborne district, Derby; in Dovedale, 2½ miles N of Ashborne r. station. It has a post office under Ashborne.

Acres, 1,036. Real property, £2,023. Pop., 305. Houses, 63. The manor belonged to the Beresfords and the Cottons; and belongs now to Sir W. Fitzherbert, Bart.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £124. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church was repaired in 1850, and contains a curious old monument of the Beresfords.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

Administration

• County: Derbyshire
• Civil Registration District: Ashbourne
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Lichfield
• Rural Deanery: Ashbourne
• Poor Law Union: Ashbourne
• Hundred: Wirksworth
• Province: Canterbury