Smalley, Derbyshire

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image_name = Smalley church hall.jpg

| static_image_caption = Church Hall, Smalley.

| coordinates = {{coord|52.998|-1.394|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Smalley

| population = 2,784

| population_ref = (2011)

| shire_district = Amber Valley

| shire_county = Derbyshire

| region = East Midlands

| constituency_westminster =

| post_town = ILKESTON

| postcode_district = DE7

| postcode_area = DE

| dial_code = 01332 + 01773

| os_grid_reference = SK407446

| type = Civil parish

| parts = Smalley

| parts_type = Settlements

| parts_style = list

| p1 = Heanor Gate

| p2 = Smalley Green

| p3 = Woodside

| area_total_sq_mi = 2.71

| website = {{URL2|smalleyparishcouncil.co.uk}}

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Smalley is a village on the main A608 Heanor to Derby road in Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 2,784.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128588&c=Smalley&d=16&e=62&g=6412913&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1458294246140&enc=1|title=Civil parish population 2011|access-date=18 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

Smalley is part of the borough of Amber Valley and has its own parish council. Smalley village is central west within the wider parish area which contains other villages - Heanor Gate to the far north which merges into the town of Heanor, Smalley Green south of Smalley and Woodside to the far south. Facilities in the area include a primary school at Smalley, and a college and industrial estate at Heanor Gate.

History

Smalley's name came from the Anglo-Saxon Smæl-lēah = "narrow woodland clearing".{{Cite web |title=Smalley :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/Derbyshire/Smalley/53284cf5b47fc4095c001902-Smalley |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk}} It was mentioned in a charter of 1009 by King Æþelræd Unræd ("Ethelred the Unready") relating to a manor known as Westune (modern-day Weston-on-Trent)[http://www.south-derbys.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/09E3504C-1E4B-4F55-9458-4246633EABFB/0/AoTA4complete.pdf Aston on Trent Conservation Area History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108113909/http://www.south-derbys.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/09E3504C-1E4B-4F55-9458-4246633EABFB/0/AoTA4complete.pdf |date=2007-11-08 }}, South Derbyshire, accessed 25 November 2008 which land included the areas now known as Shardlow, Great Wilne, Church Wilne, Crich, Smalley, Morley, Weston and Aston-on-Trent. Under this charter Ethelred gave his minister, Morcar, some exemptions from tax.Charter of Æthelred, The Great Council, 1009, accessible at Derbyshire Records Office

Smalley's Parish Church of St John the Baptist was built in the late 18th century on the site of a much earlier church, the transepts being added later in 1844. A seventh century Saxon cross forms part of the porch. The bell tower was built in 1911, to the designs of Currey and Thompson, housing five bells donated by the Rev. Charles Kerry. The chime of five bells is said to be the heaviest in England, the largest bell weighing over 2 tons. The parish church hosts occasional street parties for the residents of Smalley.

Its pub, the Bell Inn, was voted "Best Derbyshire Pub of 2006".

Sport and leisure

=Cricket=

Stainsby Hall Cricket Club have their ground at the end of St. John's Road in Smalley{{cite web|url=https://stainsbyhall.play-cricket.com/ |title=Stainsby Hall Cricket Club |website=stainsbyhall.play-cricket.com |access-date=2023-09-24 |publisher=Stainsby Hall CC }} and have been playing in the Derbyshire County League since the mid-1930s.{{cite book |author= |title=Derbyshire Marston's Pedigree County Cricket League Centenary Yearbook |location=Derbyshire |publisher=Derbyshire County Cricket League |page=124 & 179 |date=2019 }} The club takes its name from the now-demolished Stainsby House just over the parish border in Horsley Woodhouse a few hundred yards from their current ground,[http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/v2StainsbyHouse.html Stainsby House] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403184014/http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/v2stainsbyhouse.html |date=2015-04-03 }} Retrieved on November 5, 2013 and records show that the club played in front of the old house from as early as 1863.{{cite book |title=Derbyshire Cricket Grounds A Post-War Survey |location=Derbyshire |publisher=Simon Lacey |date=2004 |last1=Lacey |first1=Simon |last2=Higginbottom |first2=Chris |last3=Whittington |first3=Tom |page=123 |isbn=0-9547056-0-2}}

Stainsby Hall Cricket Club currently have three senior teams competing in the Derbyshire County Cricket League{{cite web|url= https://derbyscountylge.play-cricket.com/ |title=Derbyshire County Cricket League |access-date=2023-09-24 |publisher=DCCL }} and a long-established junior training section that play competitive cricket in the Erewash Young Cricketers League.{{cite web|url=https://eycl.play-cricket.com/ |title=Erewash Young Cricketers League |access-date=2023-09-24 |publisher=EYCL }}

References

External links

[http://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/v2smalley.html Page on Smalley's history]
[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Smalley,+Ilkeston,+Derbyshire,+UK&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title Smalley location map]
[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Smalley/index.html Smalley on GENUKI]

{{Geographic Location

|title = Destinations from Smalley

|Northwest = Kilburn, Belper

|North = Denby, Ripley

|Northeast = Heanor

|West = Horsley Woodhouse

|Centre = Smalley

|East = Ilkeston

|Southwest = Derby

|South = Morley

|Southeast = Stanley Common, West Hallam

}}