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SK202403

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ASHBOURNE

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Dialling code
  
01335

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United Kingdom

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DE6

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Rodsley is a small village about 4 miles (6 km) south of Ashbourne in Derbyshire. As the population of the village was less than 100 at the 2011 Census, details are included in the civil parish of Yeaveley.

Contents

Map of Rodsley, Ashbourne, UK

Facilities

Rodsley is one of the few villages who advertise their own helipad.

History

Nearby Hollington and Rodsley are included as manors in the 1086 Domesday Survey as belonging to Henry de Ferrers, who was given a large number of manors in Derbyshire. His descendants became the Earls of Derby and still owned land in Shirley in the nineteenth century. Mention is also made of the abbey of Burton as having internet.

In 1881, Rodsley had a population of 136 people.

It has been calculated that in 1901, Rodsley represented the population centre of Britain. This centre has been travelling southwards through Longford (in 1911) and was lying somewhere near Appleby Parva on the Derbyshire to Leicestershire border in 2000.

Notable residents

Saint Ralph Sherwin was born here in 1550. He was canonised (declared a saint) in 1970 and his feast day is 1 December - the day he died in 1581.

References

Rodsley Wikipedia


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