Beeley, Derbyshire

Description
Beeley, a township and a parish in Derbyshire, on the river Derwent, adjacent to Chatsworth Park, 1 mile N of Rowsley station on the M.R., and 4 1/2- miles E by S of Bake-well, which is the post town. Acreage, 3237; population, 390. The Duke of Devonshire is the lord of the manor and principal landowner. Millstone grit is quarried on Beeley Moor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church (dedicated to St Anne) was restored in 1883, and so effectively as to have elicited high commendation from Mr Butterfield, the eminent church architect, who congratulated the vicar on what he was pleased to call a "very effective restoration : " it may, in fact, be now considered a model village church. Two memorial windows were erected in 1892 and 1893 in the chancel£one to the memory of the seventh Duke of Devonshire, the other to that of his son, the late Lord Edward Cavendish, M.P. for West Derbyshire. The windows are much admired.