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Cubley, Derbyshire

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Population
  
232 (2011)

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Derbyshire

OS grid reference
  
SK160382

Country
  
England

Post town
  
ASHBOURNE

District
  
Derbyshire Dales

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Cubley is a parish of two closely linked villages six miles (10 km) south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire. St Andrews Church is in Cubley parish. Great Cubley and Little Cubley are known collectively as Cubley. The church lies roughly equidistant from the two, but is technically in Great Cubley. The population of the civil parish (including Alkmonton) taken at the 2011 Census was 232.

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Map of Cubley, Ashbourne, UK

History

Cubley is mentioned in the Domesday book where it is spelt Cobelei. The book says under the title of "The lands of Henry de Ferrers":

"In Cubley Siward had two carucates of land to the geld. There is land for two ploughs. There are now two ploughs in demesne and four villans and four bordars and one slave having one plough. There is a priest and a church and one mill rendering 12 pence and eight acres of meadow and woodland pasture one league long and one league broad. TRE worth 100 shillings now 40 shillings. Ralph holds it."

Notable people

  • John Flower, a theologian, was born here in the seventeenth century.
  • Michael Johnson, the father of Samuel Johnson (author of the first English dictionary), was born here.
  • References

    Cubley, Derbyshire Wikipedia