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| | GENUKI: Darley (Dale), a description from Pigot's 1835 Directory of Derbyshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | DARLEY DALE is a hamlet, in the parish of Darley, which is partly in the hundred of Wirksworth, but chiefly in the hundred of High Peak, lying on the road between Matlock Bath and Bakewell, about five miles from either place. |
 | | The church, which is dedicated to St. Helen, is partly of Norman architecture, with a square tower, containing five bells: the living is a rectory, comprising the mediety of North Darley, and the discharged mediety of South Darley, in the patronage of the dean of Lincoln. |
 | | Darley is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. |
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