Pleasley

David BEVIS has a photograph of the Old Library on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2009.

New Houghton hamlet is served by the Mobile Library on route N, which makes a stop at Recreation Road every fourth Tuesday in the afternoon. It also makes two stops in Pleasley village a little earlier that same day.

The Library at Shirebrook has a Local Studies Section that may be of great help to you.

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Churchyard extension on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.

Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

The burial register for Pleasley Hill cemetery 1897 to the present day are held at the Mansfield & District Crematorium & Cemeteries Association - tel: 01623 621811 or email: crematorium[at]mansfield.gov[dot]uk

• The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael.
   
• The church is of early Norman origin, built around 1150.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of St. Michael's church tower on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   
• Jonathan THACKER also has a photograph of St. Michael's church tower on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
   
• The parish had a mission chapel in New Houghton, built in 1897 and dedicated as "Christ Church".
   
• Geoff DUNN has a photograph of St. Barnabas church tower in the south portion of the village on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006. Formed from the parish of St Peter, Mansfield in 1896, the chancel and tower were built in 1912. This church is in Nottinghamshire.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1553.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1906.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Shirebrook sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.

"PLEASLEY is a village, in the parish of its name, which is in the same hundred as Bolsover, about four miles S.S.E. from that town. It was at one period of much greater consequence than it now is, having been a market town."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

• The parish lies up against the border with Nottinghamshire.
   
• The River Meden runs through the parish.
   
• The village lies 9 miles south-east of Chesterfield, just south of the A617.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2013.
   
• New Houghton is a hamlet just north of the village (and north of the A617 trunk road).
   
• Pleasley Hill is a hamlet south-east of the village (and in Nottinghamshire).

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Pleasley entry under Bolsover from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Sonia ADDIS-SMITH provides a transcription of the Pleasley entry from Francis White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Derby (1857).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Pleasley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Pleasley from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Pleasley to another place.

The William HOLLINS and Company mill employed more than 500 hands in 1911 to work the water and steam driven cotton and silk weaving equipment.

Peter BARR has a photograph of the Terraced cottages in Chesterfield Road on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010. Most of these were torn down to be replaced by new housing.

Bobby CLEGG has a photograph of the Nag's Head Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2015. Proprietors of the Nag's Head Pub:

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK504645 (Lat/Lon: 53.175229, -1.247414), Pleasley which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• An ashler cenotaph was erected in 1918 on the west side of Chesterfield Road.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the War Memorial in Pleasley Vale on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Stanton Ironworks Roll of Honour on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Pleasley & Pleasley Hill War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the War Memorial in New Houghton hamlet on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2013.
   
• The Pleasley and Pleasley Hill War Memorial honours both World War casualties. No names are listed. The inscription reads:

"ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
THE GALLANT MEN OF PLEASLEY
AND PLEASLEY HILL
WHO FOUGHT IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
HEROES LIE IN MANY LANDS
BUT HERE THE SYMBOL
OF THEIR GLORY STANDS
1939-1945"

• Many locals pronounce the name as "Plesley" (Thank you, Brian Johnson, 2013).

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• In March 1884, this parish was reduced in size to benefit Upper Langwith Civil Parish.
   
• In April 1904, this parish was reduced in size to create the new Shirebrook Civil Parish.
   
• This parish is a member of the Bolsover District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Chesterfield petty session hearings.
   
• In 1818, the Rev. Francis GISBORNE left an annual charity of £6 13s. to this parish, which was expended in clothing for the poor.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.

New Houghton  built a school in 1884 and enlarged it in 1898 to hold 150 children.

The Rotherham Road school (mixed) was built in 1904 for 300 children and 100 infants.

Pleasley Vale  had a school for 200 children built prior to 1912.