Description
Beauchief-Abbey, a parish in Derbyshire, with a station on the M.E. Post town, Abbeydale, under Sheffield. Acreage, 748; population, 99. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded here in 1172 by Robert Fitz-Ranulph, one of the murderers of Thomas a Becket. The living is a donative in the gift of Col. E. S. Pegge-Burnell, and is in the diocese of Southwell. The church is a small building, erected about 1660, and has a tower which belonged to the abbey.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
