Elvaston, Derbyshire

Infobox UK place
country = England
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static_image_caption=The bridge that connects Elvaston to Borrowash
latitude = 52.890
longitude = -1.388
map_type = Derbyshire
official_name = Elvaston
population =
shire_district = South Derbyshire
shire_county = Derbyshire
region = East Midlands
constituency_westminster =
post_town = DERBY
postcode_district = DE72
postcode_area =DE
dial_code =
os_grid_reference = SK412326

Elvaston is a small village to the south-east of Derby. It is dominated by Elvaston Castle, a country house which is currently in the ownership of Derbyshire County Council, who plan to lease the site to a private company. The move has proved controversial, attracting a petition of 60,000 signatures against the proposals collected by the Elvaston Castle Estate Trust, who want to keep the site in public ownership. At the present time the Castle is rarely open to the public and has been somewhat neglected, while the grounds are open throughout the summer.

History

In 1086, the Domesday book says

”The land of Geoffrey Alselin In Alvaston and Ambaston Thulston and Elvaston Toki had ten of land to the geld. There Geoffrey AlselinGeoffrey Alselin held a considerable number of manors including several in Derbyshire given to him by the King. These included obviously Ambaston, Elvaston, Alvaston and Thulston, but also land in Etwall, Ednaston, Hulland, Egginton, Breaston and Ockbrook] has now two ploughs in ; and a certain knight of his one plough. There 32 have 15 ploughs. There is one priest and a church and a mill rendering 12 shillings and one smith and 52 acres of meadow and a little scrubland. TRETRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings.] worth twelve pounds now ten pounds"Domesday Book: A Complete Transliteration". London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.750] . “

Notable Residents

* Aston Cockayne, baronet, author and poet was born here in 1608 [It is said at Elvaston Castle, but the present building was not built until a bit later?)]
* Anthony Blackwall was a vicar here
* Geoffrey S. Dawes, physiologist lived in Thurleston Grange as a boy
* William Darwin Fox, Early work on dinosaurs and introduced his second cousin Charles Darwin to the study of insects, was born near here in 1805

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