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Alderwasley

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Also known as Alderwasley, Derbyshire

Alderwasley ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 469. Alderwasley Hall is the home to one of the sites of Alderwasley Hall School which is a special school for children and young people with Aspergers and/or Speech and Language Difficulties. It is about six miles north of Belper.

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Place details

Locality
Amber Valley
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
0

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Key facts

UK place.post_town
Belper
UK place.country
England
UK place.static_image_name
All Saints Church Alderwasley (geograph 3903347).jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
All Saints Church
UK place.map_type
Derbyshire
UK place.official_name
Alderwasley
UK place.population
469
UK place.population_ref
(2011)
UK place.shire_county
Derbyshire
UK place.region
East Midlands
UK place.postcode_district
DE56
UK place.postcode_area
DE
UK place.os_grid_reference
SK3153

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Alderwasley ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 469. Alderwasley Hall is the home to one of the sites of Alderwasley Hall School which is a special school for children and young people with Aspergers and/or Speech and Language Difficulties. It is about six miles north of Belper.

The village's name derives from the Old English for "clearing near alluvial land growing with alders". In the Middle Ages, it was a manor within Duffield Frith and contained the Royal Park of Shining Cliff Woods and a later park was formed to the south called Bradley Laund. In 1284 the Shining Cliff was given to William Foun by Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster. Foun was given the job of maintaining the boundaries between the Pendleton and Peatpits Brooks.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alderwasley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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