Windley

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{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image = Windley - geograph.org.uk - 177404.jpg

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| coordinates = {{coord|53.003|-1.546|display=inline,title}}

| map_type = Derbyshire

| official_name = Windley

| population = 148

| population_ref = (2011)

| shire_district = Amber Valley

| shire_county = Derbyshire

| region = East Midlands

| constituency_westminster = Mid Derbyshire

| post_town = BELPER

| postcode_district = DE56

| postcode_area = DE

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| os_grid_reference = SK305451

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Windley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, around {{convert|6|mi|km|-1}} north of Derby, adjacent to the B5023 Duffield to Wirksworth road. The civil parish population as taken at the 2011 Census was 148.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130726&c=Windley&d=16&e=62&g=6412948&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1458299923055&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=18 March 2016|publisher =Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

It was formerly part of the parish of Duffield within Duffield Frith.

During the reign of Henry III the Mynors, of the manor of Windle-hill in Sutton-on-the-Hill, Ashbourne also had lands in Windley.Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817) Magna Britannia: volume 5 Pages 129-142 'Parishes: Doveridge - Duffield', http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50727. Date accessed: 24 October 2007.

Sir Roger Mynor was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1514, Sergeant of the King's Cellar, an official of Duffield Frith under the Duchy of Lancaster and a Commissioner of Peace for the County of Derby. He, with his lady, has a magnificent table-tomb in St. Alkmunds Church, Duffield.