Parwich

Parwich is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Pevrewic under Derbyshire in the lands belonging to the king, William the Conqueror.King William held a number of notable manors in Derbyshire including Weston-on-Trent, Melbourne, and Newton Solney. The book, which was written in 1086, said:

{{Blockquote|In Parwich are 2 carucates of land to the geld. There is land for two ploughs. It is waste. Kolli holds it of the king and he has three villans with two bordars with three ploughs. There are twelve acres of meadow. To this manor belong berewicks of Alsop-en-le-Dale, Hanson Grange and Cold Eaton. There are 2 carucates of land to the geld. There is land for two ploughs. It is waste.}}

Domesday noted that Parwich together with the manors of Darley, Matlock, Wirksworth and Ashbourne and their berewicks rendered TRETempore Regis Edward is in the time of King Edward before the Norman Conquest in 1066 32 pounds and 6.5 sesters of honey. Now 40 pounds of pure silver.{{cite book |title=Domesday Book, a complete translation |editor-first1=Ann |editor-last1=Williams |editor-first2=G.H. |editor-last2=Martin |page=742 |isbn=0-14-051535-6 |year=2002 |publisher=Viking/Allen Lane}}

Parwich was part of the ancient Crown lands and after the Conquest was granted to the Ferrers, Earls of Derby. Robert de Ferrers took a prominent part in the Montford Rebellion against the king, and Edward I seized his lands. The king gave the manor to Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, and it became part of the Duchy of Lancaster held by the Cokayne family of Ashbourne Hall. In 1603 it was sold to Thomas Levinge and remained in his family until 1814 when it was sold to William Evans. The Levinge family built Parwich Hall in 1747 but were frequently absent. After 1892, the estate was split between the Carrs and the Gisbornes. After World War One, the estate was sold to the Inglefields who sold it in the 1970s.{{citation |url=http://www.parwichhistory.com/church_history.htm |title=Church History|publisher=Parwich & District Local History Society |access-date=16 June 2016}}

The school and St Peter's Church, Parwich were erected by Sir Thomas William Evans in 1861 and 1873, although elements of the rebuilt church date back to Norman times{{cite web |url=http://www.ashbournechurches.org/Parwich.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120151959/http://www.ashbournechurches.org/Parwich.htm |archive-date=20 January 2011 |title=St. Peter's church, Parwich |publisher=AshbourneChurches.org |access-date=16 June 2016}} and the church tympanum is thought to have pre-Norman origins.{{cite web |url=http://www.ashbournechurches.org/Tympanum.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708184304/http://www.ashbournechurches.org/Tympanum.htm |archive-date=8 July 2008 |title=Parwich Tympanum |first=Rob |last=Francis |publisher=AshbourneChurches.org |access-date=16 June 2016}}

Evans owned Parwich Hall, possibly as a summer retreat from his home in Derby. It was bought in 1814 by William Evans, Thomas's father, who was a Derbyshire MP, but was in use as a vicarage by 1841.{{cite journal |url=http://www.parwichhistory.com/Issue%2014.htm |journal=Parwich & District Local History Society Newsletter |issue=14 |date=September 2003 |publisher=Parwich & District Local History Society |title=Parwich Hall |access-date=16 June 2016 |first1=Brian |last1=Foden |first2=Robert |last2=Shields |first3=Rosemary |last3=Shields |first4=Peter |last4=Trewhitt}}

Historically Parwich was a township, parish and village in the Western division of the county, part of the ancient Wirksworth hundred, and part of the Ashbourne Poor Law Union which came into existence in January 1845.{{citation|url=http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/dby/kelly/parwich.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415132143/http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/dby/kelly/parwich.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2005-04-15|title=Parwich Kelly|publisher=andrewspages|access-date=2009-12-13}}{{citation|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Ashbourne/Ashbourne.shtml|title=PLU|publisher=workhouses.org.uk|access-date=2009-12-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605234812/http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Ashbourne%2FAshbourne.shtml|archive-date=5 June 2011}}

Parwich is a village six miles north of Ashbourne. It is surrounded by fields and hills; the nearest main road is the Ashbourne to Bakewell road over a mile away; the Ashbourne to Buxton road is more than two miles away. The houses are built of local limestone and many stand around an open green, through which runs the stream which gave the village its name.{{citation|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Parwich/DARGNotes.html|title=Parwich|publisher=genuki.org.uk|access-date=2009-12-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506081428/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Parwich/DARGNotes.html|archive-date=6 May 2010}}

The Peak District Boundary Walk runs north–south through the village,{{Cite book|last=McCloy|first=Andrew|title=Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park|publisher=Friends of the Peak District|year=2017|isbn=978-1909461536}} and the Limestone Way long-distance bridleway passes west–east.{{cite map|publisher=Ordnance Survey|title=OL24 White Peak area|url=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=422730&Y=362340&A=Y&Z=120|scale=1:25000|series=Outdoor Leisure|access-date=27 May 2020}}

• Joseph Hawley (1603–1690), first member of the Hawley family to arrive to North America, to New England in 1629.

• Listed buildings in Parwich

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• [http://parwich.org PARWICH.ORG: official village website and community blog]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110120151959/http://www.ashbournechurches.org/Parwich.htm St. Peter's Church, Parwich]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081011213735/http://www.parwichmemorialhall.org/ Parwich Memorial Hall]

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